Punjab University Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Mujahid Kamran has called upon Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to give the same message to Indian Premier Narendra Modi which was given by General Zia-ul-Haq to Rajiv Gandhi when the general had flown to Delhi in 1987 for watching a test match between the two countries. He was addressing the inaugural session of a two-day national conference on "Indian Atrocities in Kashmir: Regional and Global Implications" on Wednesday.
The conference was organised by PU Department of Political Science and Centre for South Asian Studies (CSAS). On this occasion, Mushaal Mullick (wife of Hurriyat leader Yasin Malik), Chairperson Global Alliance for Kashmir & MPA Dr Farzana Nazir Meer, Professor Emeritus Dr Hassan Askari, Director CSAS and Chairperson Department of Political Science Professor Dr Umbreen Javaid, faculty members and a large number of students were present.
Addressing the conference, Dr Mujahid Kamran announced that Punjab University would provide free education and hostel facilities to 10 students from Indian Occupied Kashmir. Moreover, he also announced that funds would be provided for research on Kashmir issue. He requested the prime minister to send Mushaal Mullick abroad for presenting the case of Kashmir and apprise the international community about the Indian brutalities there.
Addressing the ceremony, Mushaal Mullick said that basic human rights were being violated by India in Occupied Kashmir. She said that Kashmir was the oldest unresolved issue at the United Nations.
Talking about her husband, she said doctors had advised to shift Yasin Malik to ICU but India was not providing him life-saving medicines and other medical facilities. Professor Dr Hasan Askari Rizvi said a large number of young people came forward and raised voice against the Indian atrocities. The movement of Kashmiri people was not simply a 'protest movement' but a 'revolutionary movement', he added.