Kashmir issue pertains to entire Ummah, says ESAM President

SRINAGAR – February 28 (ONLINE): Ankara-based Economic and Social Research Center (ESAM) President Ustaaz Recai Kutan has said the Kashmir dispute is not an issue of only India and Pakistan but it is an issue of the entire Muslim Ummah.

According to a report by the Kashmir Media Service (KMS), Ustaaz Recai Kutan said this during a meeting with the Chairman of World Forum for Peace & Justice, Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai, who along with delegation visited the ESAM office in Ankara, recently.

The ESAM President welcomed the Kashmiri delegation and said that he always prays for peace, tranquility and justice for Kashmir and to the entire Islamic world and humanity.

He added that they know that since 1989, more than Kashmiri 100,000 brothers and sisters have lost their lives until today and 10,000 were subjected to enforeced disappearance by the Indian occupation forces and there is no information about their whereabouts.

Tens of thousands of women have been subjected to dishonorable actions, more than one thousand brothers and sisters were targeted by pellet guns and they lost their eyesight due to these weapons.

Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai on the occasion said, “Kashmir was one of the most idyllic settings in the world. A picturesque valley located between Pakistan, India, Afghanistan and China.

It was a natural paradise. But The New York Times reported on August 10, 2019, ‘Inside Kashmir, Cut off from the World: ‘A Living Hell’ of Anger and Fear.

Harinder Baweja, an Indian senior journalist described the situation in Kashmir in these words in ‘India Today: ‘Everywhere there’s pain. There’s darkness everywhere.

The valley has lost its magic, its mystique, ESAM President Ustaaz Recai Kutan was the keynote speaker at the first international Kashmir conference held in Washington, DC on July 13-14, 1991.”

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