{"id":189540,"date":"2025-12-05T09:35:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T04:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=189540"},"modified":"2025-12-05T20:28:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T15:28:24","slug":"engineer-rashid-calls-for-humanitarian-approach-to-address-iiojk-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/12\/05\/engineer-rashid-calls-for-humanitarian-approach-to-address-iiojk-issues.html","title":{"rendered":"Engineer Rashid calls for humanitarian approach to address IIOJK issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-189008\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/11\/2-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/11\/2-13.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/11\/2-13-390x216.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>New Delhi: Member of Lok Sabha, lower house of the Indian Parliament, from Baramulla, occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Engineer Rashid has urged the Indian government and members of the Parliament to address the issues of Kashmir with \u201chumanity, sincerity and moral responsibility,\u201d instead of \u201cpolitical expediency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, Engineer Rashid, speaking in the Lok Sabha, announced that he would observe a one-day hunger strike on International Human Rights Day, December 10, as a symbolic gesture to draw attention to what he described as Kashmir\u2019s \u201cunresolved pain\u201d and the urgent need for reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p>He said that despite frequent assurances about bridging the \u201cdistance of hearts\u201d with the people of occupied Jammu and Kashmir, \u201cnothing substantive has changed on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Calling for \u201ccollective wisdom,\u201d he urged both the Treasury and Opposition benches to adopt a humanitarian approach and appealed to the authorities to initiate an inclusive dialogue with elected representatives and other stakeholders, asserting that such engagement is vital for a lasting and dignified resolution.<\/p>\n<p>Rashid reminded the House of \u201c35 years of turmoil and hardship\u201d faced by the people of Kashmir, whose foremost aspiration, he said, is peace and stability.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of Human Rights Day, he appealed to \u201call stakeholders to give peace a chance.\u201d Referring to his incarceration, he added with restraint: \u201cAt present, Tihar Jail is my home.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Member of Lok Sabha, lower house of the Indian Parliament, from Baramulla, occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Engineer Rashid has urged the Indian government and members of the Parliament to address the issues of Kashmir with \u201chumanity, sincerity and moral responsibility,\u201d instead of \u201cpolitical expediency.\u201d According to Kashmir Media Service, Engineer Rashid, speaking in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":189008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-occupied-jammu-and-kashmir"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/11\/2-13.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189603,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189540\/revisions\/189603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}