‘Universities to set up Kashmir Learning Centres for study, research’
Islamabad: Public and private sector universities across Pakistan, Azad Jammu and Kashmir will set up ‘Kashmir Learning Centres’ to advance the study and research on Kashmir, especially with respect to Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
The decision to the effect was taken during a virtual interactive session of Prime Minister’s Special Assistant (SAPM) on Human Rights and Women Empowerment Mushaal Hussein Mullick with around 150 heads of the higher education institutions.
Addressing the forum, SAPM Mushaal Mullick underlined that the Kashmir dispute had a deep connection with peace in South Asia and the emotions of Pakistani people. “Where the political, religious and human rights voices of Kashmir are being silenced by the coercive forces, we have to become the voice of Kashmir,” she emphasised.
The SAPM stated that the academia had a great role in highlighting the Kashmir cause through academic and research activities as well as arts and culture studies.
She underlined the need for sensitising the Pakistani youth about the magnitude of the Kashmir dispute and their role in countering the Indian narrative through which India tries to suppress the Kashmir freedom movement and levels baseless accusations against Pakistan.
The Chairman of Higher Education Commission (HEC), Dr Mukhtar Ahmed, Executive Director Dr Zia-ul-Qayyum and HEC Commission Member Dr Ehsanullah Kakar also attended the meeting.
Meanwhile, Mushaal Mullick in a statement in Islamabad lashed out at the fascist Narendra Modi-led government for a fresh and much-intensified wave of terrorism aimed at subjecting the people of IIOJK to collective punishment for their just demand of the UN-mandated right to self-determination.
She said that the Hindutva regime crossed all limits of cruelties and fascism to silence the dissenting voices in the occupied territory.
