Kashmir and self-determination

Kashmir and self-determination

Dr. Jassim Taqui

In a brilliant Oxbridge lecture titled” Kashmir,” Mrs. Mushaal Hussein Mullick the spouse of Yasin Malik a freedom fighter and Leader of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front ( JKLF) narrated her own soul touching story of the persecution by the Indian troops in occupied Kashmir.            

Mushaal Hussein Mullick is the Chairperson of Peace and Culture Organization that works for Global Peace and Harmony. She is a freedom fighter, a painter, and poetess.

She started her lecture by quoting poems of Gulzar describing Kashmir as a land of love, destiny, soul, faith, and freedom.

She read in Urdu another poem of Ghalib describing the Valley of Kashmir as a dreamland, serenity, and the story of the future.

Mullick presented a detailed picture of the atrocities of the Indian troops against women, children and freedom fighters who only demand the implementation of the UN resolutions on the right of the people of Kashmir to self-determination.

She described the revolution of the people of Kashmir as a legitimate revolt that is based on UN resolutions. She appealed to the peace and freedom loving nations to intervene to stop the ethnic cleansing of the Muslims of Kashmir and the systematic killing of a large number of Kashmiris in a bid to change the demography of Kashmir and ultimately to convert it into a Hindu state.

Mullick narrated the horrific stories of molesting and raping little Kashmiri girls stating that BJP was literally butchering the Kashmiris.

In a questions-answers session, the audience expressed full sympathy and solidarity with her noble cause and called for international protection of women and children in conflict regions. In the process, Mullick also highlighted her sympathy with the Palestinian people in occupied Palestine.

In his words of thanks, the Secretary General of Oxbridge Dr. Irshad Ullah- Khan described the lecture as brilliant. He asked the Western nations to intervene since the escalation of tension in Kashmir could lead to the eruption of a nuclear war between Pakistan and India. He warned that if India and Pakistan used about 500 nuclear bombs in their arsenal, the world would end.

Khan stated that Oxbridge would send a video of the lecture to all embassies accredited to Pakistan so that they could understand the gravity of the situation in occupied Kashmir.