PROTEST AGAINST THE ATROCITIES COMMITTED IN INDIAN OCCUPIED KASHMIR (ALSO KNOWN AS MAQBOOZA KASHMIR) ON AUGUST 20TH, 2017 IN FRONT OF NATHAN PHILLIPS SQUARE TORONTO, FROM 11:00AM TO 1:00PM: HABIB YOUSAFZAI, THE CHAIRMAN JAMMU KASHMIR DIASPORA ALLIANCE
Press Release: July 30, 2017 Toronto, Canada
Kashmir Committee encompassing Asaf Raja, Habib Yousafzai, Sobia Imran, Imran Noor Aziz Chudhry, Idrees Khan, Mushtaq Anjum, Dr Azrab Khan, Rafiq Khawaja, are arranging a protest on August 20th, 2017, in front of Nathan Phillips Square which is on 100 Queen Street West. Toronto, Ontario M5H 2N1, from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM. The protest is against the genocide Indian soldiers are committing on minorities such as Christians, Muslims, and Sikhs since 1947. In order to hoodwink the international community, the Consultant General of India is celebrating its independence day on the above mentioned location. The purpose of this celebration by India is to first off, to rationalize to the world everything is booming in India and secondly, to celebrate the killing of minorities.
It is worth questioning, is there anything to celebrate when no minority is safe in India. All the freedom leadership in Maqbooza Kashmir has been detained. Our reputable freedom leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani has not been able to attend his compulsory Friday prayer for many months as he has been put under house arrest. Syeda Asia Andrabi the Chairman of Duktran-E-Millat has been imprisoned in Jammu far away from her home in Srinagar. She is sick and still has not being given medical attention. Her secretary Fehmeeda Soofi, a young woman, has also been detained. Dr Ashiq Hussain Factoo the husband of Asia Andrabi is languishing illegally in jail for more than 25 years. Musarat Alam, whenever he comes out of Jail from one charge, is detained again for a new accusation. He is also in Indian detention for a long time. Shabir Ahmed Shah and Yasin Malik have also been arrested. There only fault is that they believe that the occupied territory of Kashmir is a lawful part of Pakistan and it should accede to it. Girls who are protesting peacefully against India’s illegal occupation have become a target of pellet guns and more than a 1000 women have become blind.
Sardar Balkar Singh Heir said they are part of the protest and suggests that, “China and Pakistan must co-ordinate and liberate at the least ten states including his country from Indian occupation”. Sardar Sukhminder Singh Hansra President, Shiromani Akali Dal Amritsar Canada asserts that the Sikhs will also participate in this protest to denounce the illegitimate independence of India. Their inherited homeland Punjab, Khalistan has been illegally merged with India against their wishes. As of this date, more than 280,000 Sikhs and more than 200,000 Muslims in Maqbooza Kashmir have been mercilessly killed by the Indian forces. Not a single day goes by when Muslims are being butchered for the suspicion of eating beef or keeping it in their homes. The people are being forced to drink cow urine by the extremist Hindus because the cow and its urine are sacred for them.
Indian soldiers have martyred another freedom fighter Firdaus Ahmad Shaheed in Maqbooza Kashmir. We humbly request all to please join us in the peaceful protest on August 20, 2017. Silence in the face of oppression is another form of siding with the oppressor. All it takes for evil to exist in the world is good people to sit around and do nothing. Let us take this opportunity to stand united and protest peacefully against this oppression.
