[AA.TR] Thousands of people on Friday formed a human chain in Pakistain’s capital Islamabad to express solidarity
and polio
with Kashmiris in their protest against India’s scrapping of the disputed Jammu and Kashmir
 ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir . The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
’s longstanding special rights in August.
Waving national and Azad Kashmir flags, the protesters amassed at D-chowk roundabout, which breaks through the capital, and formed a human chain, which was also joined by Prime Minister Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan , who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five...
and his Cabinet members.
In his brief address aired on state-run Pakistain Television, Khan questioned the "disproportionate" amount of coverage accorded by the international media to the dire human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
situation in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, especially in context of the widespread coverage of the Hong Kong protests.
"International media is highlighting disproportionately protests in Hong Kong, which is not a disputed region, and only a few protesters have been injured there. It is part of China", Khan observed, adding: "On the other hand, Kashmir is an internationally-recognized disputed region but unfortunately, the world media is more worried about Hong Kong."
"It has been over two months, Indian army has imprisoned 8 million Kashmiri men, women, and children in their homes but the international media continues to give headline coverage to Hong Kong protests and ignores the dire human rights crisis in Indian-occupied Kashmir," the premier, donned in off-white shalwar kameez (national dress) and a brown waistcoat, said.
The former cricketing hero said that the world leaders had started to understand Pakistain’s stance on Kashmir, and had openly decried New Delhi over human rights violations in the disputed valley.
Khan warned that as soon as the lingering curfew in the disputed valley was lifted, Kashmiris would take to streets in hundreds of thousands as they had rejected New Delhi’s move.
"I want to assure Kashmiris that Pakistain will always stand beside them," the premier added.
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