United Kashmir People's National Party, A Political Organisation In Jammu And Kashmir Strongly Condemns 'Biased, Fabricated' Report By EU Disinfo Lab
Asian News International
Dec 13,
2020
Exiled
UKPNP Chairman Sardar Shakat Ali Kashmiri (Source: Sardar Shakar ali
Kashmiri/Facebook)
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New Delhi
[India], December 13 (ANI): United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP), a
political organisation in Jammu and Kashmir, on Saturday strongly condemned a
report by EU Disinfo Lab, saying that the NGO is involved in malicious
propaganda against regional countries by supporting Pakistan to further
suppress voices against the numerous illegal activities of the Pakistani
establishment.
The
political party of Kashmir further accused the EU Disinfo Lab of giving biased,
fictional and fabricated reports against India and other regional countries.
The party
stated that the purpose of the report was to defame all activists and their
leadership who are fighting against human rights violations in the Pakistani
peripheries, while adding that it also discredited all political parties and
NGOs, including nationalists affiliated with these organisations.
"EU
Disinfo Lab report is spread to defame genuine leadership, human rights
defenders and rights activists from Pakistan and its peripheries who are
peacefully struggling for their basic human and fundamental rights, who are
striving for ownership of their natural resources, self-governance, equality,
rule of law, freedom of expression and press and media," said UKPNP.
UKPNP has
repeatedly advocated for peace, harmony, and co-existence for the cause of
civil society, political, socio-economic and human rights of the people of
Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan.
The party
also maintained that though all UN-accredited NGOs are bound to submit reports
before UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) committee of 19 states every
year regarding their work and activities at UN Human Rights Council, with
complete details of offices and board of directors, EU Disinfo Lab did not
share the content of speeches and interventions by these NGOs.
The party
also raised its voice against enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings,
strict restriction on freedom of press and media, growing extremism and
terrorism in the region, discrimination towards nationalist leaders and rights
activists, and the freedom of banned terrorist organizations in Pakistan.
Sardar
Shaukat Ali Kashmiri, exiled Chairman of UKPNP, said: "The NGO has failed
to create or find any link between UKPNP and those groups. I reject this entire
statement in which I and my comrades are mentioned. Our party reserves every
right to defend ourselves at all such forums and any code of law when
required."
Asserting
that Pakistan and its intelligence agencies are regularly hunting pro-people,
progressive and democratic voices in the country, he said that his party is
being targeted by malicious and fabricated propaganda to suppress the voices
which say that the people in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) are deprived of
fundamental human rights.
Terming the
report as 'biased and baseless', he said that several non-UN entities have been
mentioned in the report, which showed that the NGO has only offered its
platforms to serve the interests of 'someone else', while adding that the
report failed to mention numerous interventions against India and other
regional countries.
He also
termed the report as 'one-sided' and a 'cyber warfare' in which the NGO had
involved itself without being aware of the UNHCR or its mechanisms.
"We
shall continue our peaceful struggle with resilience for the safety of our
human rights and rights to developments," he said, while asking
journalists to abide by journalistic standards and not spread such fake news.
"We
have been raising the issues of enforced disappearances, exploitation of natural
resources on PoK and Balochistan. We are not hiding anything, we are not doing
any secret meetings and they are blaming us for propaganda," said another
party member.
Earlier on
Friday, India hit out at Pakistan for circulating "fictional and
fabricated dossiers," saying that disinformation is practised "by
those who have records to hide such as sheltering international wanted
terrorists including Osama Bin Laden."
"As a
responsible democracy, India doesn't practice disinformation campaigns. In
fact, if you're looking at disinformation, the best example is the country next
door which is circulating fictional and fabricated dossiers and purveys a
regular stream of fake news," said Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)
spokesperson Anurag Srivastava. (ANI)
Original Headline: Kashmiri political
organisation strongly condemns 'biased, fabricated' report by EU Disinfo Lab
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