NEW YORK (Kashmir English): Digital advertising trucks bearing the message “Kashmir Is Not Forgotten: February 5th – Day of Solidarity” rolled through the most visible and symbolic locations of New York City, including the United Nations headquarters, Times Square, Freedom Tower, CenturyTel Park, and areas surrounding foreign UN missions.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai, Chairman of World Forum for Peace & Justice, on the occasion said the mobile LED trucks—an innovative form of outreach equipped with high-resolution digital screens—deliver messages to an estimated 40,000 to 50,000 people per day, including diplomats, tourists, observers, and ordinary Americans.
Their presence sent a clear and unambiguous message: Kashmiris are not alone. The global Kashmiri diaspora stands shoulder to shoulder with the people of Kashmir.
He said: “The continued silence of the international community on this long-standing dispute is deeply troubling. It appears that India is being given a free hand to inflict grave human rights violations on the people of Kashmir. A conflict with clear potential to escalate into a nuclear confrontation is receiving far less attention than its gravity demands. The consequences of such neglect could be catastrophic—not only for the region, but for global peace and security.”
“Freedom for Kashmir”
Rented by the Washington-based World Kashmir Awareness Forum (WKAF), the digital trucks also displayed messages calling for accountability and international responsibility, including: “India Involved in Genocide: Kashmiris Demand Plebiscite”; “Freedom for all: Freedom for Kashmir”; “India Criminalizes Press Freedom in Kashmir”; “Indian Forces on Killing Spree: Kashmir Need to Be Set Free”; “Kashmir Facing Existential Threat: United States Needs to Act”; “Kashmiris Reject Indian Occupation: UN Resolution only Solution”; Modi Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity in Kashmir.”
Dr. Ghulam Nabi Mir, President, World Kashmir Awareness Forum, said although first proposed by late JI Pakistan Ameer Qazi Hussain Ahmad in 1990, Kashmir Solidarity Day has come to be memorialized by Kashmiri and Pakistani people of all political and religious persuasions ever since. It is one of many such days we Kashmiris have etched in our memories ever since thousands of Indians invaded, plundered, burnt down and set up shop to steal whatever they wished for the ensuing 79 years.
He added that World’s silence amounts to acquiescence, culpability and tacit support for the ongoing state of terror and tyranny. All we are asking is that people all around the world stand in solidarity with us and speak out against the evil India is perpetuating in Kashmir.
Dr Imtiaz Khan, a Kashmiri American scholar, Raja Mukhtar, Chief spokesman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, North America, Sardar Taj Khan, Vice Chairman, Kashmir Mission, USA, Advocate Sardar Imtiaz Khan Garalvi, General Secretary, Kashmir Mission, USA, Sardar Zarif Khan, President, Kashmir American Welfare Association, Sardar Sajid Sawar, a young Kashmiri youth leader, Sardar Shoaib Irshad, General Secretary of Kashmir American Welfare Association, Syed Raza Hassan, long time human right activist, Naseem Gilgaty, leader of Americans of Gilgit heritage and Raja Liaqat Kiyani, President of Kashmir House, Washington, also addressed on the occasion, highlighting Indian atrocities in occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
