Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting DrFirdous AshiqAwan Thursday said that Kashmiris are facing a worst violation of human rights as they are unable to get the basic right to information for 54 days.
She was speaking at an event on the “One Year Performance of Federal Information Commission” organized BY department of sociology of the International Islamic University (IIU) in collaboration with Sustainable Social Development Organization (SSDO) here at Faisal Masjid Campus.
She said Prime Minister Imran Khan would present the case of Kashmiris and project their voice in his address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 27 in New York. She said Imran Khan was shaking the conscience of the world which should listen to the voice of Kashmiris. People in Indian Occupied Kashmir were facing shortage of food and medicines and were under siege for the last fifty days, she added.
IUI Rector Dr. Masoom Yasinzai said in welcome address that that academia is the most appropriate and relevant institution that can improve the right to information situation. He also condemned ongoing Indian atrocities in Kashmir and stressed that right to information is a basic prerogative of every individual and world forums must practically work for the protection. The event was also addressed by Prof. Dr. Aqdas Naveed Malik- Acting President IIU , Mr. Muhammad Azam (Chief Information Commissioner , Mr. Syed Kausar Abbas (Executive Director-SSDO, Dr. HazirUllah Chairman Department of Sociology, IIU.