WASHINGTON (Kashmir English): Washington-based World Kashmir Awareness forum (WKAF), an advocacy organization, rented mobile digital advertising trucks displaying sharp messages around New York City and Washington, DC pertaining to Kashmir freedom movement
The messages urged the United Nations to implement its decades-old resolutions, particularly resolution # 47 which was adopted on April 21, 1948, with the full support of the United States, pledging to the people of Kashmir their right to self-determination.
WKAF underscores the importance of UN resolutions on Kashmir as they provide an agreed plan for settling the 78-year-old dispute between India and Pakistan.
“These resolutions bind both India and Pakistan to respect the verdict of the people of Kashmir to be obtained through a free vote under the impartial supervision of the United Nations,” Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai, Secretary-General of WKAF said in a statement.
Dr. Fai said that “Digital advertising trucks are considered to be the most effective way to spread a message as the brightly lit words on the screens catch attention of the people walking on the streets and those coming in and out of government and commercial buildings and particularly from the United Nations Headquarters.
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Our objective was to target the audience at the right places, and we were able to control the location where most of the people were able to notice our messages aimed at promoting the cause of Kashmir.
The electronic screens on the trucks carried messages such as: Abuses in Kashmir Continue Till Date; UN Needs to Fulfill the Mandate; Voices of Freedom From Kashmir Strong as Ever; UN Wake Up and Deliver; India Commits Atrocities in Kashmir with Impunity; Mass Graves and Rapes are Crimes Against Humanity; Blinding of Children in Kashmir A Shameful Act; United Nations It’s Time to React; Elections in Kashmir Just A Name; Indian Government Has No Shame; Kashmiris Reject Indian Occupation; UN Resolutions the Only Solution; Hold India Accountable for War Crimes in Kashmir; India Stop Land Grabbing in Kashmir; and Indian Army Out of Kashmir.
The route of digital truck in Washington included: The National Mall; all federal buildings including the State Department; the Capitol Hill; Library of Congress; The Washington Monument; The White House; foreign embassies; museums; Lincoln Memorial; Washington National Cathedral; the Indian Embassy; the World Bank and IMF.
And in New York, the truck route is the United Nations headquarters; offices of various UN Missions; Freedom Tower; Indian Mission; Battery Park; Central Park; and Times Square.
Dr. Ghulam N. Mir, President, WKAF and Chairman, Kashmir Diaspora Coalition said April 21 marks one of the most important days in the history of Jammu and Kashmir.
“On that day in 1948, nearly a year after Britain quit India, India brazenly invaded and occupied the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir in 1947. United Nations Security Council intervened to stop the war and succeed in securing a Cease Fire Resolution.”
India has defied United Nations Security Council resolutions for more than 78 years because she knows Kashmiris will never vote in her favour.
