Bismillah-hir-Rahman-nir-Rahim, President Sahib, my colleagues, my sister here as well, everyone present here Assalam-o-Alaikum.

I want to say thank you to Fahim Kayani Sahib and his organization for organizing this conference. I think it’s timely although we have to move away from the normal speeches that we do in a normal way because I think the sister was very right to compare this lockdown with the western lockdown that we have.

The difference is that one lockdown was for our safety and medical reason. Of course everyone gets food and water, internet and all basic facilities. Everything is available but more importantly I have a little business park and most businesses have got 10 to 20 thousand pounds each for staying at home. All the employees get 80% salary so.

There is something like 200 billion pounds just in this country which is being pumped into the industry, also so people don’t suffer and compare that with Indian occupied Kashmir where people have lost their walnuts still on the trees, their apples still in the fields.

Everything from those daily wage earners who cannot go and get their food, let me just in a very polite way request that I’ve watched some of the Azad Kashmir news and other news where people compare this and then they somehow naively curse the world and say now you know Allah has punished you for not doing anything in Kashmir.

I was watching a leader yesterday from Azad Kashmir saying this completely out of order to compare this and then curse. Because even then this is not a curse since no one did anything on Kashmir, this is an opportunity for us to compare and say how women would feel because they suffer at home making the food, looking after the children, with men and everybody else in the house and there is no food and money coming in.

It’s an opportunity for us to express what is happening, and I am really glad that in this COVID-19, Coronavirus pandemic has caused good people in the Middle East to wake up. I was reading some tweets, the princes from Oman, academics and people from the GCC countries who have clearly started to lobby in various platforms to say that what the RSS and fascist Modi Mafia, the cow brigade are doing to Muslims including Kashmiris’ is unacceptable.

And their government is in fact harboring some of these fascists who were tweeting from these countries clearly stated that they would throw out any of the members of the gcc countries for using bad language against the situation taking place, I’m glad that some of those twitter accounts have been deleted so pressure does work.

I can say and some others might agree with me in the fact that we spend at least 5-6 hrs on Twitter and Social media just to make sure that all the news about Kashmir and also Indian Muslims is re-tweeted. From anywhere I get any good Media reports I Tweet it and add my own personal comments as well so I think it is a great opportunity to revive ourselves, not be the old style of threatening people and demanding things, there is a different way to do the work.

I am sure that my colleague in parliament afzal khan will be raising these questions as he did in the European parliament when the opportunity comes but let’s not demand too much of parliamentarians right now since we have covid 19, and thousands of people that have died. We have to be realistic, the old age homes record numbers are still unclear despite the number being recorded as 20 thousand.

Lord Qurban Hussain, even in recent weeks raised questions and also whatever the debate is, he brings it back to Kashmir so I applaud his efforts and president sahib I must thank and congratulate you since you continue to articulate a very good debate when flights were open and you are still doing a wonderful job.

So all of us together need to make sure we find new ways and opportunities to lobby but we don’t taunt anybody like now you’ve got so many deaths and now you’ve been locked up so it’s god’s curse on you. No, you can’t do that.
This is completely different, it is a situation where all humanity is suffering and we have to sympathize with that but we have to just politely say that when you know under all your facilities.genuinely I can say how many people have committed suicide because they believe this to be the end of the world, the beginning of the end of the world.

This is not but the smallpox pandemic cost 500 million lives in 100 years, there are many examples of plagues that have come and gone. this will go as well, but this is an opportunity we can use to bring attention to the current situation of the people of occupied Kashmir.

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