WASHINGTON – Yet another success for Pakistan’s effective diplomacy againstIndian PM Narendra Modi.
Due Pakistan’s successful policy of highlighting the Kashmir issue andIndian PM Modi brutality against oppressed Kashmiris, more voices are beingraised against Indian PM Modi across the World.
In the latest turn of events, The Council on American-Islamic Relations(CAIR), a Washington-based largest Muslim civil rights and advocacyorganisation, has announced that 52 civil and human rights, refugee andreligious organisations have sent a letter to the Bill & Melinda GatesFoundation, urging the charity to not award its premier Global GoalkeeperAward to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at its Goalkeepers event nextweek, citing gross violations of human rights in occupied Kashmir andtargeting minorities including Dalit and Christian communities.
The organisations, in the letter, have opposed awarding Hindu nationalistModi based on well-documented human rights’ abuses against Muslims, Dalitand Christians.
The letter further noted Modi’s August 5 illegal abrogation of Article 370of the Indian Constitution, stripping special autonomy of the state ofJammu and Kashmir and besieging its eight million residents.
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Signatories to the letter recognise the positive impact India’s SwachhBharat Abhiyan (SBA) sanitation campaign has had in eliminating opendefecation in that county. However, they were of the view that the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation could not in good conscience bestow an award onModi while he oversees a brutal military campaign of collective punishmentin the Kashmir Valley – while concurrently stripping 1.9 millionBengali-speaking Muslims of their citizenship in the Indian state of Assamand constructing detention camps to imprison people who have now beenturned “stateless”.
The letter further points out that since Modi was elected as premier in2014, there has been a 400% rise in incidents of hate crimes and violenceagainst Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, and Dalits, and that leaders of hispolitical party, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), have been credibly accusedof emboldening “communal violence” and failing to forcefully condemn or puta stop to it.
