Pakistan

Asma Jahangir rejects Modi’s analogy

Asma believes there is a great difference between situations of the two regions

Our Correspondent August 23, 2016

PHOTO: TARIQ HASSAN/EXPRESS/FILE

ISLAMABAD: Asma Jahangir, human rights activist and lawyer, rejected Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s comparison between Indian-administered Kashmir and Balochistan on human rights violation.

Asma believes there is a great difference between situations of the two regions. She expressed these views while speaking to reporters at the Press Association of Supreme Court office after attending the lawyers’ protest in front of the parliament building.

She said that Kashmir is a disputed territory where Indian forces are violating human rights, while the situation is different in Balochistan where people are not demanding freedom but rather peace and the fulfilment of their basic rights. Asma also rejected Modi’s allegations regarding the involvement of Pakistan in Kashmir unrest and said that the recent wave of demonstrations in Kashmir is ‘home grown.’

Published in The Express Tribune, August 23^rd, 2016.

COMMENTS (4)

np | 8 years ago | Reply Indeed the 2 are different. There was no insurgency in Kashmir Valley until Pakistan started pushing armed proxies in 1990. The problems in Balochistan are indigenous and have been going on since 1950s.

Observer | 8 years ago | Reply The table is turning on Pakistan. The Kashmiri separatist movement is losing steam and on the death bed, whereas the Baloch separatist movement is on its way to be revived in a big way ... !!

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Confused | 8 years ago | Reply Let us see how long this lasts. But who pushed off the ship?

Iralan | 8 years ago | Reply Every one pretty much knows who she cares for and subscribes to and no one cares what she thinks or says This is Not a secret .

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