Digital Trucks Flash Messages Condemning Land Grabbing & Occupation in Kashmir

 

Washington: Brightly lit and flashing messages reading “From Kashmir to Palestine: Occupation is the Crime,” “India: Stop Land Grabbing in Kashmir,” “India: Stop Killing of Political Prisoners in Kashmir,” and “Kashmiris Reject Indian Occupation: UN Resolution only Solution,” digital trucks drove down the central locations in Washington, DC. According to a WKAF message, the locations included The Capitol Hill, The White House, The Department of State, The Washington Monument, most of the embassies, including the Embassy of India, and various museums, etc.

The digital truck advertising proved a most effective way to get the message out to our audience, that included diplomats of foreign embassies, all spectators, observers and common Americans.

The trucks were rented by Washington-based, ‘World Kashmir Awareness Forum,’ (WKAF), according to the message.

Dr Ghulam Nabi Mir, President, WKAF and Chairman, Kashmir Diaspora Coalition said that Kashmiri people all over the world observe October 27 as a Black Day, the day India invaded the erstwhile princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, under the pretext of a fake Instrument of Accession with Maharaja Hari Singh who was in the process of being overthrown by Azad Kashmiri freedom fighters. Kashmir being a majority Muslim country, ruled by a much-hated minority tyrannical king, had also launched the Quit Kashmir Movement in 1931 in the Kashmir valley.

Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai, Chairman, World Forum for Peace & Justice, said, “I fail to understand who prevents the world leaders to use their moral authority to persuade the violators of the international laws to abide by democratic values and universal principles. Perhaps international arms sales and the general military industrial complex that seems to have a firm grip on foreign policy priorities might offer a clue. Observing democratic process and civility in international affairs seems too great a request for people who lack both the will to act responsibly and the maturity to understand the proper role of civil servants of society.”

Other speakers who expressed similar views on the occasion, included: Dr Imtiaz Khan, Professor at George Washington University Medical Center; Sardar Zarif Khan, Advisor to the President of Azad Kashmir;

Sardar Zulfiqar Roshan Khan; Sardar Zubair Khan; Raja Liaqat Kiyani, President, Kashmir House; Sardar Aftab Roshan Khan; Shoaib Irshad; Shafiq Shah; and Khalid Faheem. - gnfai2003@yahoo.com