Attack on ambulance: Rescue workers urge UN to take notice of Indian aggression

MUZAFFARABAD: Paramedics and rescue workers staged a protest in Muzaffarabad on Sunday to condemn the Indian cross-border attack on an ambulance in the Neelam Valley along the Line of Control (LoC).

Led by Mishal Malik, the wife of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik, the rescue workers marched from the Press Club to United Nations Military Observers Group for India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) in Muzaffarabad.

The protesters raised pro-freedom and anti-India slogans while carrying banners which called on India to ‘stop targeting ambulances and rescue workers’, and for ‘UN to take the notice of Indian firing on medical teams near LoC’.

Mishal said that world powers and human rights organisations such as International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement should take notice of the Indian firing on the civilians and ambulance.

She further said that attacking the ambulance was ample proof of
India’s abuses against humanity.

She added that Kashmiris have decided to secure their right of self-determination and that nobody can stop them from struggling for their rights.

Protesting ambulance drivers urged the UNMOGIP based in Muzaffarabad and Rawalpindi to visit Neelam Valley and see how Indian forces attacked the passenger bus and then the ambulance which was trying to rescue the injured.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 28^th, 2016.