Editorial: Asia Andarabi and Fahmida Soofi Under Arrest; India Celebrates Women Day in Kashmir with Hate and Brutality
PKKH Editorial
In the last couple of days Aasia Andrabbi, Head of Dukhtaraan e Millat, who was under the arrest of the Indian Army was admitted in Soura Medical Institute, Sirinagar under heavy deployment of forces, to undergo surgery, she is still under custody. Today Fahmida Soofi of Mutahida Majlis e Mushawarat and also part of Dukhtaraan e Millat has been arrested.
Brute Indian hegemonic thinking could not have chosen a better time to highlight their ugly ideology warped in the torn cloth of Democracy and Secularism. India has been playing havoc with the lives and properties of the Kashmiris for a whole month now since the hanging of Afzal Guru; curfews, bullets, assault, pepper bombs, this is what India has for Kashmir. But now this is the height of apathy and lowliness; to start laying their hands on the daughters of Kashmir; has India gone*schizophrenic; is it not inciting war; does India have the least of humanity?
We question our fellow citizens, was the Women Day meant for glamour and pomp only, were we to celebrate it for brands and with celebrities in our morning shows only and lets the women in less-privileged*places, and in oppressed populations carry on with their usual*dilemma, with not even a word of condemnation.
Asia Andarabi and Fahmida Soofi are symbols of a freedom struggle by mothers, wives and daughters who have suffered and seen the abduction, torture and killing of their loved ones. These are not*glamorous*figures of fashion or economic prosperity but they are still figures of virtue, patience, faith and perseverance; they are still symbols of the bravery of raising voice in the face of tyranny, torture and brute force.
Why does the world celebrate the Women Day? Why does the world even celebrate Humanity, if it will never come to its cries? PKKH deeply feels the*dichotomy*in our values and our practices, for PKKH the Award of the Year for Women Day goes to Asia Andarabi and Fahmida Soofi, we pray for their health and safety and we put the question to our mainstream media to celebrate these women instead of celebrating immodest Indian film figures in every news bulletin.
We condemn the arrest of the political activist of Kashmir, we condemn the arrest of our sisters and daughters, and we condemn the Barbarity of India.*The Prime Minister of Pakistan is in India today, it is a good opportunity for him to raise his voice for our oppressed sisters, of a state that India has occupied unlawfully, against the will of its people.
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PKKH Editorial
In the last couple of days Aasia Andrabbi, Head of Dukhtaraan e Millat, who was under the arrest of the Indian Army was admitted in Soura Medical Institute, Sirinagar under heavy deployment of forces, to undergo surgery, she is still under custody. Today Fahmida Soofi of Mutahida Majlis e Mushawarat and also part of Dukhtaraan e Millat has been arrested.
Brute Indian hegemonic thinking could not have chosen a better time to highlight their ugly ideology warped in the torn cloth of Democracy and Secularism. India has been playing havoc with the lives and properties of the Kashmiris for a whole month now since the hanging of Afzal Guru; curfews, bullets, assault, pepper bombs, this is what India has for Kashmir. But now this is the height of apathy and lowliness; to start laying their hands on the daughters of Kashmir; has India gone*schizophrenic; is it not inciting war; does India have the least of humanity?
We question our fellow citizens, was the Women Day meant for glamour and pomp only, were we to celebrate it for brands and with celebrities in our morning shows only and lets the women in less-privileged*places, and in oppressed populations carry on with their usual*dilemma, with not even a word of condemnation.
Asia Andarabi and Fahmida Soofi are symbols of a freedom struggle by mothers, wives and daughters who have suffered and seen the abduction, torture and killing of their loved ones. These are not*glamorous*figures of fashion or economic prosperity but they are still figures of virtue, patience, faith and perseverance; they are still symbols of the bravery of raising voice in the face of tyranny, torture and brute force.
Why does the world celebrate the Women Day? Why does the world even celebrate Humanity, if it will never come to its cries? PKKH deeply feels the*dichotomy*in our values and our practices, for PKKH the Award of the Year for Women Day goes to Asia Andarabi and Fahmida Soofi, we pray for their health and safety and we put the question to our mainstream media to celebrate these women instead of celebrating immodest Indian film figures in every news bulletin.
We condemn the arrest of the political activist of Kashmir, we condemn the arrest of our sisters and daughters, and we condemn the Barbarity of India.*The Prime Minister of Pakistan is in India today, it is a good opportunity for him to raise his voice for our oppressed sisters, of a state that India has occupied unlawfully, against the will of its people.
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