UN urged to act as digital ‘Kashmir Campaign’ rolls through New York city
New York: Washington-based World Kashmir Awareness Forum launched a high-visibility mobile digital campaign across New York City, urging the United Nations to implement its long-standing resolutions on Kashmir.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the campaign coincided with the 78th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 47, adopted unanimously on April 21, 1948. Mobile LED trucks displayed messages across Manhattan from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., covering UN Headquarters,
Times Square, Freedom Tower, and diplomatic missions. Messages included: “Decades elapsed, sufferings not diminished: UN resolutions for Kashmir remain unfinished” and “Kashmiris Reject Indian Occupation: UN Resolutions the Only Solution.”
Dr. Ghulam N. Mir, WKAF President, said mobile digital outreach ensures broader engagement than stationary protests. He added that India is committing “ethnic cleansing, cultural and religious repression” while erasing a historic Kashmiri civilization, stressing that the UN, OIC, and Pakistan have a moral obligation to speak out. He suggested Kashmiri and Palestinian diasporas make common cause for self-determination.
Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai, Chairman World Forum for Peace & Justice, said the initiative reminded the international community that Resolution 47’s call for a UN-supervised plebiscite remains unfulfilled. He noted digital trucks generated 50,000 to 60,000 impressions daily in Times Square alone.
Dr. Imtiaz Khan, Kashmiri American scholar, said non-implementation of Resolution 47 shows the UN’s limited capacity to enforce decisions and has implications for regional stability between two nuclear states.
Sardar Taj Khan, Senior Vice Chairman Kashmir Mission USA and main organizer, said the messages underscored human rights violations, demographic changes, and denial of political rights. He added that 78 years of wars brought India and Pakistan to the brink of nuclear war in April-May 2025 because of Kashmir.
Raja Mukhtar, JKLF North America Spokesman and Co-Organizer, called it a renewed appeal to the UN and demanded release of political prisoners including Yasin Malik and Shabir Ahmed Shah.
Sardar Zarif Khan, President of Kashmir American Welfare Association, said April 21 guaranteed Kashmiris the right to self-determination and hoped President Trump would facilitate mediation between India, Pakistan, and Kashmiri leadership.
Sardar Sawar Khan, former Advisor to the AJK PM, denounced 78 years of atrocities, deaths, and imprisonments under Indian occupation, saying India has disregarded UN mandates.
Sardar Zulfiqar Roshan Khan, founding member of KAWA, said Resolution 47 called for a UN plebiscite but promises were never fulfilled. He added that India’s August 5, 2019 actions revoked Kashmir’s autonomy to enable land grabs and domicile certificates for Hindus.
Sardar Sajid Sawar, human rights activist, said the dispute will fester unless India accepts realities, and peace remains elusive due to India’s “evil designs.”
Advocate Imtiaz Khan Garalvi, General Secretary Kashmir Mission USA, said the Kashmiri diaspora must be the voice of the voiceless in global power corridors.
Khalid Awan, President PPP USA, said peace in South Asia would benefit Kashmiris and India, urging a policy change after 78 years.
Syed Hasan Raza said Indian soldiers aim to suppress Kashmiris but the struggle will continue until liberation.
Raja Razak, PML-N New York Leader, said India deployed over 900,000 soldiers with draconian laws, causing mass killings, gang rapes, blinding by pellets, and land grabs to convert Kashmir into a Hindu-majority state.
Syed Hasnat Ahmed Shah said Kashmir faces an existential threat as over 4.3 million Indians received domicile certificates to change demography.
Syed Mohammad Ahmed said UN resolutions on Kashmir constitute the only international agreement between India and Pakistan based on freedom of choice.
Syed Shahbaz Shah stressed early resolution per UN resolutions and Kashmiri aspirations, adding that the people of Azad Kashmir stand with occupied Kashmir.
