AJK president briefed French media persons, intellectuals on worsening humanitarian situation in IOJ and K.

ISLAMABAD -- Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan Friday, in a virtual meeting with French media, academia, think tanks, human rights organizations and civil society, said India was using the cover of coronavirus pandemic to break the will of Kashmiris by denying them their right to self-determination and by altering the status of the internationally recognized disputed region.

The virtual video conference was convened by the Embassy of Pakistan, Paris in which Ambassador of Pakistan to France Moin ul Haque, prominent French media persons, scholars, intellectuals and civil society representatives participated, said a news release received here.

The AJK president in his address contrasted the worldwide COVID-19 lockdowns to save the people from deadly pandemic with the nine-month old lockdown in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJ and K) where eight million Kashmiris were virtually under siege like conditions, without access to food, education, medicine, livelihood and freedom of movement and...