New York, May 17, 2023 (PPI-OT): The US-based Sikhs have come forward to help the Kashmiris to expose Narendra Modi-led Indian government’s evil design to hoodwink the world about the prevailing situation of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir through holding of a G20 meeting in Srinagar. The Sikhs For Justice (SFJ), spearheading the Khalistan movement aimed at creation of a separate homeland for Sikhs by the separation of Punjab from India, urged the Kashmiris to block Srinagar airport to sensitise the delegates arriving there to attend the G20 event.
The Modi regime is hosting the G20 tourism working group meeting under India’s presidency in IIOJK between May 22 and 24. The SFJ, an international human rights advocacy group working for the realisation of the right to self-determination, has released a video by a New York-based lawyer and SFJ’s Counsel General Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.
Pannun said, “G20 Nations, Kashmir is not India and India is illegally occupying Jammu and Kashmir. India is setting up your delegates to go to Srinagar from the 22nd to the 24th.” He said the Indian occupation forces are planning to kill Kashmiri Hindus and then they are going to blame the Kashmiri freedom fighters and Pakistan for that. India is planning a terror attack, that’s why they are holding this meeting in Srinagar, he added.
He asked the Kashmiris to block Srinagar airport and “expose the violence and genocide, expose the killings of Kashmiris, expose the rape of Kashmiri women. Now is the time.” The SFJ has also launched a dedicated email site for the Kashmiris to send emails urging the G20 ambassadors to “Boycott Kashmir Summit” and “Save Kashmiri Pundits” as Indian forces are planning a terror attack to blame Kashmiri freedom fighters and Pakistan for sponsoring terrorism.
Meanwhile, the SJF in a letter to the G20 countries said, we are writing to you today to alert you that Indian agencies might orchestrate and perpetrate violent incident on the Kashmiri Pundit community in IIOJK during or on the heels of upcoming G20 meeting and blame it on Pakistan in order to defame her as well as to vilify the freedom movement of the Kashmiri Muslims who are already living under Indian occupation in the conditions which have been categorised as ‘Brink of Genocide’ by the Genocide Watch.
“Your Excellency, our concern regarding India’s plan to orchestrate a violent incident during G20 is supported by India’s pattern and practice from the past,” it said. The letter pointed out that on March 20, 2000, on the eve of President Bill Clinton’s visit to India, 35 Sikhs were brutally massacred in Chattisinghpora area of Islamabad district of IIOJK. “India instantly blamed Pakistan for the massacre. However, later investigations and confessional statements from the high-ranking Indian Army officer revealed that the massacre was planned and perpetrated by the Indian Army. In 2017 Lt Gen (Retired) KS Gill who was part of the investigation in an interview admitted that the Indian Army was involved in the massacre,” it added.
The SJF in the letter said since the illegal annexation of Jammu and Kashmir by the Modi government in August 2019, repression of the Kashmiri Muslims has increased manifold and simultaneously India is attempting to whitewash its ongoing crimes against Kashmiris by orchestrating incidents to divert the attention and blame Pakistan for supporting terrorism. “However, Pakistan’s position on Kashmir and its support is unequivocally for the Kashmiris’ right to self-determination as guaranteed in the UN resolution. Pakistan’s position is further reaffirmed by Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s most recent statement “Unless India reviews the action it took on August 5, 2019, Pakistan is not in a position to engage bilaterally with India”, given during the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization) meeting.
India is also trying to create before the world community a semblance of legitimacy for its illegal occupation and annexation of Jammu and Kashmir which is the UN-designated disputed territory subject to resolution via plebiscite,” it said. The letter urged the G20 countries to boycott this meeting to save the Kashmiri Pandits from the India-orchestrated violence.
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