Surinder Kaul

Dear Friends, Good Afternoon from the United Nations Human Rights Council, Switzerland: Please find the video of my speech on the plight of political dissidents in Pakistan Occupied Gilgit and Baltistan (PoGB), who are routinely tortured and harassed by the state of Pakistan using the draconian Anti-Terrorism Act 1997. I made this speech at the 63rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), which I made yesterday at UNHRC's headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Regards Javed Ahmad Beigh 63rd Session of UNHRC United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland

PAKISTAN MUST STOP TORTURING LOCAL LEADERS OF PAKISTAN OCCUPIED GILGIT & BALTISTAN (PoGB) Dear Friends, After being absent from social media for over a month, I am now BACK and that too, "BACK WITH VENGEANCE". Messaging straight from the internal halls of the United Nations Human Rights Council's (UNHRC) Assembly, Geneva, Switzerland headquarters, where I am attending 63rd session of UNHRC, I made a speech castigating the state of Pakistan for its ill treatment of civil leaders of Pakistan Occupied Gilgit & Baltistan's (PoGB) Awami Action Committee, a true representative body of PoGB that draws its leaders from cross section of civil society of PoGB. I spoke about the ill treatment meted out to elderly Chairman of PoGB's Awami Action Committee - Jenab Ehsan Ali Advocate and other members - Nusrat Hussain, Mehboob Wali, Nafees Advocate and Mehar Ali, all of whom were put under "4th Schedule" of PoGB's notorious Anti-Terrorism Act 1997, a draconian law that Pakistan uses to suppress dissent in both parts of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) - Pakistan Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (PoJK) as well as Pakistan Occupied Gilgit & Baltistan (PoGB). These leaders of PoGB's Awami Action Committee were arrested by the state of Pakistan and put into incarceration for nearly 2 months on false and fraudulent charges of "inciting violence" against the state of Pakistan. Even though, many of these leaders have since been released from incarceration, the state of Pakistan continues to use the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 and its infamous "Schedule 4" to threaten, harass and intimidate civilian voices of dissent in both PoGB and PoJK. As an Indian Kashmiri, I stand on august platform of United Nations' UNHRC to show my solidarity with my brothers and sisters from Pakistan Occupied Kashmir's Gilgit and Baltistan (PoGB) region, who continue to fight oppression by the state of Pakistan with courage and bravado. Jai Hind Jai Bharat 🙏 Javed Ahmad Beigh United Nations Human Rights Council Geneva, Switzerland