Doctors and health care professionals have demanded immediate restoration of all civil rights in the occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Unless the right of the Kashmiri people to determine their own political future is not given, no peace and hence no solution to the plight of common man can be expected. This demand was made during a demo organized by the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) and Pakistan Islamic Medical Association (PIMA) at Karachi Press Club against the Indian atrocities in Kashmir, which was attended by several professional doctors associations as well as medical students. They carried placards, banners and raised slogans of condemnation.

They also demanded of opening all basic civic amenities to common man: food, water, electricity, health care needs (clinics, hospitals etc), medicines and lifesaving services. The international community, the influential states, the UNO, Security Council, WHO, UNICEF, Red Cross and others should take urgent action against the Indian government and put immediate and meaningful pressure on it so that it must end the Kashmiri clampdown and human right violation.

Speakers expressed their deep concern over the human misery that has been created by the occupying Indian forces since Prime Minister Modi's announcement of annexation of the Jammu and Kashmir on 5th August 2019. Speakers said that as health care workers, they are deeply concerned on the rapidly deteriorating health care condition in the valley.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2019