Brussels, November 01, 2019 (PPI-OT): Kashmir Council Europe (KCEU) is all set to launch the week-long event of “Kashmir EU-Week” at the European Parliament in Brussels on Monday. The KCEU in a statement issued in Brussels said that the Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), Raja Farooq Haider, would inaugurate the annual event at the European headquarters.
This time, the Kashmir’s EU Week events are being held at a time when occupied Kashmir is witnessing constant lockdown for the last three months and severe violations of human rights committed by the Indian forces.
The Kashmir EU-Week’s programmes comprising international conferences, seminars, debates, workshops, screening of a documentary and a photos and handicraft exhibition on Kashmir would be held from November 4-8 in the EU Parliament. Photographs of the famous French-Belg photographer Cedric Gerbehaye clicked in occupied Kashmir would also be presented. A report containing latest facts and figures of human rights violations as well as latest pictures from the occupied valley would also be presented during the Kashmir EU-Week.
The programmes, which would be hosted by MEP Shaffaq Mohammed and other MEPs, are being organised by KCEU in collaboration with other Europe-based organisations. A large number of the people specially members of EU parliament, experts, intellectuals, human rights activists and scholars from Europe, US, Canada, Pakistan, AJK and occupied Kashmir would attend the programmes.
The KCEU Chairman, Ali Raza Syed, in a statement said that the annual event of Kashmir EU-Week was being arranged by the Kashmir Council EU for last 11 years. He said that besides it, the Council had so far held several other programmes including conferences, seminars, meetings and debates on Kashmir and many of the programmes were arranged at the European diplomatic, political, research and educational institutions. One million signature campaign on Kashmir is also being continued by the KCEU in different European countries, he added.
Ali Raza Syed said, creating awareness about the large scale human rights violations in occupied Kashmir is main objective of the programmes. According to him, the EU-Week is more important this year as India revoked special status of occupied Kashmir, divided it into two union territories and imposed continued lockdown in the occupied valley. He said that the people of Kashmir had rendered matchless sacrifices for the Kashmir cause and the use of brute force could not stop them from continuing their struggle for securing their inalienable right to self-determination.
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