ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi has urged Overseas Pakistanis to highlight human rights violations in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) and persecution of minorities in India.  According to statement issued by President Secretariat Press Wing, President expressed these views while talking to delegation of eminent UK and US-based Pakistani expatriates, at Aiwan-e-Sadr.

President Alvi termed Pakistani diaspora around world great asset who were contributing with their hard work, knowledge and intellect to progress and prosperity of their host countries. He urged Overseas Pakistanis to maintain close and strong connections with people of areas of their origin, and with their intellect, expertise, experiences and investments uplift their social, economic and financial outlook. Arif Alvi asked members of delegation to invest their knowledge, intellect and expertise to create enabling conditions in Pakistan to retain its precious educated and high-quality human resources which were direly needed for Pakistan’s socio-economic development.

President said that although Pakistan was facing difficult economic and financial situations but they were surmountable. He said that Pakistan was on right track in empowering women and differently-abled people, providing patronage to orphans, and shifting its focus from curative treatment of diseases, which was expensive and unaffordable, to preventive mode of treatment which would help ensure health at minimal cost.  He said that UN could not stop wars and conflicts in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Afghanistan and other parts of world which were waged primarily by spreading misinformation, fake news and disinformation to achieve certain objectives of developed world. Issue of Indian Illegally Occupied Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir was one of oldest but unresolved agendas still waiting for implementations of several UNSC resolutions which was unfortunate, he added. While referring to rising tide of Islamophobia and extremist Hindutva philosophy in India, President said that religious extremism was on rise in India and majority Hindutva-inspired Hindu population was being pitched against all religious or ethnic minorities of country.

Published in The Daily National Courier, January, 03 2023

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