Govt to launch comprehensive campaign to highlight Kashmir issue: Qureshi

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi Thursday said the government would launch a comprehensive campaign from January 25 to highlight the plight of Indian-occupied Kashmir globally.

The government would run a media campaign in both print and electronic media to highlight the deteriorating human rights situation in the Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJK), he said while addressing a press conference, APP reported.

Minister for Communications Murad Saeed and Special Assistant to the PM on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan flanked the foreign minister as he talked to the media after his return from Davos where Prime Minister Imran Khan also raised the Kashmir issue with US President Trump and reiterated his call for intervention.

Qureshi said the federal ministers had been assigned different tasks to make the campaign successful by mobilizing the masses on the issue, which was already supported by the whole nation unitedly.

On January 27, the Pakistan National Council of Arts would host a cultural show focusing Kashmir, which would follow a photo exhibition at the countrywide art galleries depicting the Kashmir cause, freedom struggle, the miseries of the people including the pellet gun victims and the ordeal of the homeless Kashmiri people.

The foreign minister said the comprehensive campaign would also help foil the Indian attempt to dub Pakistan’s stance as exaggerated by showing the on the ground situation to the global community.