[DAILYTIMES.PK] Parliamentary Committee on 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....
Chairman Sheharyar Khan Afridi on Thursday directed the Pakistain Telecommunications Authority (PTA) chairman to take cognizance of the ’selective action’ by the Facebook management against Pak and Kashmiri social media activists and take appropriate action in this regard.
The directions were passed during the 18th meeting of the committee chaired by Sheharyar Afridi. Officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, PTA chairman, delegation of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) and others also attended the meeting. Canada-Pakistain Global Congress President Chaudhry Zafar also attended the meeting as an observer from Canada.
The committee also passed two unanimous resolutions to denounce the recent Indian maneuvers and army deployment in Indian Indian Kashmire and the recent terrorist attack on a Moslem family in Canada amid rise of Islamophobia
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
. The committee gave a nod to the roadmap of international visits for lobbying on Kashmir.
Briefing the committee on the future engagement with diplomatic corps, the Kashmir Committee chairman said that in wake of significant reduction in Covid-19 pandemic, the committee delegations would soon be visiting
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire..., Central Asian states, US and UK to lobby on Kashmir. He said other than the Kashmir Committee members, the APHC leadership would also be a part of these delegations.
The committee gave a detailed hearing to PTA Chairman Amir Azeem Bajwa over the action taken against the Facebook management over the recent suspension of accounts and pages of Pak users. He said that the PTA had sensitised about concerns of Pakistain and Kashmiris about censorship of activists on human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
abuses in Jammu Kashmir.
He said that the reduction of complaints reflected that there was a change in the mindset of the social media sites management. However,
today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday...
Sheharyar Afridi confronted the PTA chief and asked why managements of Facebook and Twitter did not set up their offices in Pakistain yet. To a recent statement of Facebook management about suspension of several accounts and pages of Pak users, he asked what action had been taken by the PTA against the Facebook team.
He said that why the Facebook team had refused to turn up in the Kashmir Committee meeting and directed PTA to ensure that Facebook representative must attend the next meeting of the committee. The PTA chairman said that PTA was engaging with the Facebook management and would do whatever it takes to protect rights of the Pak and Kashmiri users in accordance with the Pak laws.
He said that Pakistain had directed Facebook management to set up its office in Pakistain. Sheharyar Afridi argued how Facebook management was not adhering to directives of a country with 220 million population and how can any company violate basic rights of over 220 million people. He said why PTA had failed to take action against Facebook management and why the Facebook was not blocked in Pakistain if it fails to comply with the directions of the government.