- Title: Protesters in capital of Pakistani Kashmir lodge complaint against India
- Date: 9th August 2019
- Summary: MUZAFFARBAD, AZAD (PAKISTAN-ADMINISTERED) KASHMIR (AUGUST 08, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF STUDENTS AND FACULTY MEMBERS OF AZAD JAMMU KASHMIR UNIVERSITY MARCHING ON STREETS ON MUZAFFARABAD PROTESTERS CHANTING (English) "We want freedom" STUDENTS CHANTING (Urdu) "Allah is greatest" PROTESTERS HOLDING BANNER THAT READS (English) "STOP GENOCIDE IN KASHMIR", CHANTING (Urdu) "Modi Dog" A FACULTY MEMBER TALKING TO A MEMBER OF UNMOGIP (UNITED NATIONS MILITARY OBSERVERS GROUP FOR INDIA AND PAKISTAN) FACULTY MEMBER NOMINATING GROUP OF STUDENTS WHO WILL PRESENT MEMORANDUM TO UNMOGIP STUDENTS WALKING IN WITH UNMOGIP OFFICIAL (SOUNDBITE) (Urdu/English) FACULTY MEMBER, DR. BATOOL ATA, SAYING: "Whether the Kashmiris are here, or in any other part of the world, no one can take away their right of self-determination. We will be standing up for that at all cost. Any solution in which the Kashmiris are not involved will not be acceptable to the Kashmiris under any circumstances." WOMEN STUDENTS HOLDING PLACARDS (SOUNDBITE) (Urdu) STUDENT LEADER, UMAR AFTAB KIYANI, SAYING: "We are on the streets, and we have just one demand: that we should be given the right of determination as soon as possible and that a solution should be found for the Kashmir issue. We appeal to the United Nations to find a peaceful solution, and grant us self-determination, before the situation propels us towards a nuclear war." MEMBERS OF CIVIL SOCIETY MARCHING TOWARDS UNMOGIP OFFICE PROTESTERS MARCHING AND CHANTING (Urdu) "We want freedom" PROTESTER CHANTING (Urdu) "Modi Dog" VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS MARCHING AND CHANTING (Urdu) "Set fire to the parliaments of India" AND OTHER SLOGANS REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PROTESTERS COMING OUT OF UNMOGIP OFFICE AFTER HANDING IN MEMORANDUM VARIOUS OF CARS OF UNMOGIP OFFICIALS LEAVING THE ENCLAVE AFTER ACCEPTING MEMORANDUMS FRO PROTESTERS
- Embargoed: 23rd August 2019 07:37
- Keywords: protestors Kashmir Military Observers Group for India and Pakistan Muzaffarabad complaint against Indian government
- Location: MUZAFFARBAD, AZAD (PAKISTAN-ADMINISTERED) KASHMIR
- City: MUZAFFARBAD, AZAD (PAKISTAN-ADMINISTERED) KASHMIR
- Country: Pakistan
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace
- Reuters ID: LVA001ARHY2X3
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Hundreds of students and faculty members of the Azad Jammu Kashmir University in Muzaffarabad, capital of Azad (Pakistani-administered) Kashmir, marched to the offices of the United Nations Military Observers Group for India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) on Thursday (August 8) to lodge a protest against the Indian government.
Hundreds of members of the civil society also protested in the streets on Muzaffarabad, before handing over a Memorandum of protest to the UNMOGIP.
Seeking to tighten its grip over the contested region of Kashmir, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government this week withdrew Muslim-majority Jammu and Kashmir's right to frame its own laws and allowed people from outside the state to buy property there.
The federal government also broke up the state into two federal territories to allow it greater control, a move that regional leaders said was a further humiliation.
Kashmir's leaders have warned of a backlash and Pakistan, which also lays claims to the Himalayan territory, vowed to fight for the rights of people living there.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on the two countries to refrain from any steps that could affect the special status of the disputed regions of Kashmir and Jammu.
Guterres was "concerned over reports of restrictions on Indian-side of Kashmir," and warned that such actions could "exacerbate the human rights situation in region," Guterres' spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said in a statement.
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