“White-Collar state terrorism”: International webinar condemns India’s crackdown on doctors, lawyers in IIOJK
London: In a powerful virtual gathering marking International Human Rights Day, Kashmir Media Service (KMS) hosted a Zoom webinar in collaboration with KNews HD, spotlighting India’s escalating repression in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
The webinar featured a diverse panel of diaspora leaders, politicians, and activists from Pakistan, the UK, US, Spain, and Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
Participants included Dr. Samia Raheel Qazi from Islamabad, who tied the Kashmir cause to Pakistan’s founding ideology and expressed hope for impending freedom; Swarnjit Singh, Mayor of Norwich, Connecticut, who condemned violations worldwide from a Sikh perspective and offered support; Councillor M. Fazil Khan from the UK, who urged unified global advocacy focused on self-determination; and Shaikh Abdul Mateen, former APHC Secretary General, who highlighted extreme militarization and compared India’s actions to those in Palestine.
Anwar ul Haq from Spain detailed arrests of Kashmiri doctors under fabricated charges, while Zaffar Ahmad Quraishi, Chairman of Kashmir Campaign Global, decried demographic changes and collective punishment post-2019.
Advocate Rehana Ali criticized impunity-granting laws like AFSPA and called for international accountability, alongside Rehana Khan from AJK, Raja Ejaz Ahmed from KNews HD, and others.
Speakers unanimously described “white-collar” violations as a deliberate strategy to silence educated voices, enforce disappearances, and erode society, urging the diaspora to amplify the call for Kashmiris’ right to self-determination and an end to ongoing abuses.
The webinar concluded with renewed commitments to expose these atrocities globally, stressing that silence equates to complicity in the face of systematic state terrorism.
