- Title: Pakistanis vent anger at Kashmir change, burn effigy of Indian PM Modi
- Date: 9th August 2019
- Summary: PROTESTERS STANDING/BANNER HELD BY PROTESTERS READING (English/Urdu) "SOLIDARITY WITH KASHMIRI BROTHERS AND SISTERS" PROTESTERS CHANTING "KASHMIR WILL BECOME PAKISTAN" ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (AUGUST 9, 2019) (REUTERS) REPRESENTATIVES OF POLITICAL PARTIES AT CONFERENCE BANNER READING (Urdu) 'ALL PARTIES KASHMIR CONFERENCE' BANNER READING (English) 'WE STRONGLY CONDEMN INDIAN PRESIDENTIAL ORDER TO MERGE IOK (INDIAN OCCUPIED KASHMIR) WITH INDIA' POLITICIANS AND LEADERS OF AZAD KASHMIR DISCUSSING KASHMIR SITUATION (SOUNDBITE) (Urdu) PRIME MINISTER OF AZAD (PAKISTAN-ADMINISTERED) KASHMIR, RAJA FAROOQ HAIDER KHAN, SAYING: "We strongly condemn this step by India and we declare it a conspiracy to diminish the status of a disputed territory." POLITICIANS SITTING (SOUNDBITE) (Urdu) PRIME MINISTER OF AZAD (PAKISTAN-ADMINISTERED) KASHMIR, RAJA FAROOQ HAIDER KHAN, SAYING: "This conference demands from international community the access of international aid agencies to the state of Indian occupied Kashmir so that they can help out those under curfew, injured and the people without food." END OF CONFERENCE
- Embargoed: 23rd August 2019 16:51
- Keywords: India Jammu and Kashmir Jammu Article 370 Imran Khan Narendra Modi
- Location: KARACHI AND ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN
- City: KARACHI AND ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN
- Country: Pakistan
- Topics: Diplomacy/Foreign Policy,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA003ARHYZBB
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Pakistani protesters on Friday (August 9) took to the streets to express solidarity with the people of Kashmir, with some burning an effigy of the Indian prime minister, after India scrapped special status of the disputed territory.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government this week withdrew Muslim-majority state's right to frame its own laws and allowed people from outside the region to buy property there in a bid to tighten its grip over the contested region.
In one rally in Karachi, about 150 protesters from Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (Islamist political party) marched through the streets. In another demonstration held by welfare organisation Fixit, angry protesters burnt a cutout effigy of Prime Minister Modi. Similar rallies were held in other cities.
Meanwhile, an All Parties Conference, presided over by Prime Minister of Azad (Pakistan administered) Jammu Kashmir, Raja Farooq Haider Khan, in Islamabad, categorically rejected what it said was the Indian government's move to change the demography of Kashmir, saying such acts are against the United Nations' resolutions.
The meeting issued a declaration terming India's abrogation of Article 370 of its constitution as a conspiracy to change the status of Kashmir against the will of its people.
Pakistan, which lays claims to Kashmir, has downgraded diplomatic ties with India and suspended trade in anger.
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