The Islamabad Policy Research Institute organized a special webinar on “A Year after Annexation: Challenges to Restoring Peace and Autonomy in Indian Occupied Kashmir” here in the capital today. Speakers included Lieutenant General (R) Naeeem Khalid Lodhi former Minister of Defence, Government of Pakistan; Ms Mushaal Mullick, Kashmir rights activist and Chairperson, Peace and Culture Organisation; and Mr Jamal Aziz, Executive Director, Research Society of International Law (RSIL).
Speaking about ‘The State of Internal Resistance: Humanitarian and Security Challenges”, Ms. Mushaal Mullick lamented that a year after the 5 August 2019 unconstitutional change, Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir continues to be subjugated to grave escalation in humanitarian violence, with pro-independence protests squashed, Hurriyat leaders imprisoned and thousands of UN-reported atrocities against Kashmiri children and women.
