Islamabad, Pakistan: Mushaal Hussein Mullick, wife of jailed Kashmiri leader Mohammad Yasin Malik, has made a heartfelt plea to Rahul Gandhi, India’s opposition leader, to intervene and save her husband’s life before it’s too late, says a press release.
She’s urged Gandhi to pressure the Indian government to immediately transfer Yasin to an intensive care unit (ICU) facility due to his rapidly deteriorating health, as he had gone on an indefinite hunger strike unto death on November 2 against Indian brutalities and illegal arrest and no legal or medical care in jail.
Mushaal, former Special Assistant to the Prime Minister for Human Rights and Women Empowerment, wrote a letter to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi requested him for immediate intervention to save the life of Yasin Malik from Indian judicial murder.
She appealed to the international community to take notice of the deteriorating health of Yasin, fearing that the hunger strike could prove fatal for his health because he had already been in extremely unsanitary conditions due to the denial of the best medical facilities.
Former SAPM appealed to world leaders and advocates for justice to take cognizant of the situation because her husband was a chronic heart and kidney patient.
Mushaal stated that Yasin was a symbol of non-violence and a proponent of Kashmir’s peaceful resistance; however, even then he was facing life-threatening neglect in Tihar Jail.
She demanded that he urgently needed medical attention because the indefinite hunger strike could be fatal for his health, as he was being denied proper medical care, no doctor of his choice, not being given life-saving drugs, and no right to a fair trial.
Mushaal urged Rahul Gandhi to initiate an urgent debate on shifting him to an ICU facility in a hospital immediately before it’s too late.
She expressed alarm that the custodial killing of Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Ashraf Sherai Sahab and the International Community’s inability to do anything about it still haunts us, as the same pattern is being followed in the case of Yasin Malik.
Former SAPM stressed the need that the right to be treated by a medical practitioner of his own choice was a fundamental right as recognized under the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights; therefore India has no right to deny this right to Yasin Malik.
She lamented that Indian civil society has chosen to remain silent as genocide takes place in Kashmir but I am offering a chance to this civil society through its leader of opposition to stand on the right side of history.
“Indian Judiciary has become complicit in the crimes of its govt; this judiciary has become the Nazi judiciary, which will have to be tried alongside the executive whenever a War Crimes Tribunal is established,” Mushaal added.
Ex-SAPM demanded that Pakistan develop a whole-nation approach on this issue with the sole objective of the nation to secure Yasin’s life. She urged that all diplomatic, social, legal, legislative, political, and economic resources should be diverted toward this cause.
She urged the international community to resolve the long-standing Kashmir dispute in accordance with the United Nations resolutions and aspirations of the Kashmiri people.
