The eleven-year-old daughter of a outstanding Kashmiri insurgent chief who faces life in jail in neighboring India has issued an emotional attraction, urging New Delhi to permit her to satisfy her father
ByMUNIR AHMED Related Press
On this handout photograph launched by Press Data Division Pakistan managed Kashmir, Razia Sultan, 11, left, the daughter of Mohammed Yasin Malik, 57, speaks within the regional legislative meeting in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Thursday, July 20, 2023. The eleven-year-old daughter of a outstanding Kashmiri insurgent chief who was sentenced to life in jail in neighboring India on Thursday issued an emotional attraction, urging New Delhi to permit her to satisfy her ailing father. (Press Data Division Pakistan managed Kashmir by way of AP)
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ISLAMABAD — The eleven-year-old daughter of a outstanding Kashmiri insurgent chief who was sentenced to life in jail in neighboring India issued an emotional attraction on Thursday, urging New Delhi to permit her to satisfy her ailing father.
Razia Sultan, the daughter of Mohammed Yasin Malik, 57, made this emotional demand after she was allowed to deal with the regional legislative meeting in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
“I used to be solely two years {old} once I met my father. I’ve now turned 11,” she mentioned in a televised speech. “I miss my father like something. I crave to listen to his voice.”
Sultan mentioned she would maintain Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi accountable if any hurt was brought on to her father. She mentioned she hoped that in the future her father can be launched, and he had been wrongly sentenced in a “pretend case.”
Malik was arrested in 2019 and was sentenced to life in jail final yr by an Indian court docket on prices of terrorism and sedition. His arrest triggered clashes between protesters and police within the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir. Two months in the past, the Indian Nationwide Investigation Company had additionally approached the New Delhi Excessive Court docket searching for the loss of life penalty for Malik. The court docket has but to rule on that.
Throughout his trial, Malik protested the costs in opposition to him, saying was a freedom fighter. “If searching for azadi (freedom) is a criminal offense, then I’m prepared to simply accept this crime and its penalties,” he advised the decide forward of his conviction.
Malik for years had headed the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Entrance, one of many first armed insurgent teams in Indian-controlled Kashmir, however he later shifted to a peaceable battle to hunt an finish to Indian rule in Kashmir.
In 2009, Malik traveled to Pakistan, the place he married Mushaal Hussein, and he has just one daughter.
Kashmir is split between Pakistan and India and is claimed by each in its entirety. The international locations have fought two of their wars over Kashmir. Rebels have been preventing since 1989 for Kashmir’s independence from India or its merger with Pakistan.
Most Muslim Kashmiris help the insurgent objective of uniting the territory, both underneath Pakistani rule or as an unbiased nation.
