Subcommittees of the European Parliament and US Congress will be meeting to discuss the situation in Indian-occupied Kashmir. The US Congress' Foreign Relations Committee House Subcommittee on Asia will meet to discuss human rights violations in Kashmir. The meeting has been called by chairperson Brad Sherman. The European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs will meet on September 2 and also discuss Kashmir. AJK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider will attend the meeting and speak to the MPs. Both committees will discuss the four-week curfew in Indian-held Kashmir. Reports coming out of the valley accuse the Indian government of mass imprisonments and human rights violations.

After United Nations Security Council the voice of Kashmiri people, who have been living under siege since August 5 when India revoked the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, has now reached the United States congress. The issue of Kashmir will be discussed at the foreign affairs committee of the US Congress. It is pertinent to mention here that for the first time in the history of foreign affairs committee of the US Congress the Kashmir issue will be highlighted there. The US Congress Asia sub-committee will also hear the atrocities committed by India in the Occupied Kashmir. Congressman Brad Sherman in a statement said that he was waiting to hear about the human right violations committed by India in Occupied Kashmir.

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