A delegation of exhibitors of All Pakistan Fruit & Vegetable Exporters, Importers & Merchants Association (PFVA) participating in the exhibition held on 4-6 September also promoted delicious and colorful apples of Kashmir in HK. Pakistani flag along with the flags of Kashmir were displayed together on the Pakistani stalls in the exhibition and foreign buyers were apprised of the human atrocities by the Indian forces in the occupied Jammu & Kashmir.
According to Waheed Ahmed, Patron-in-Chief PFVA, the objective of promoting Kashmiri produces first time in the exhibition was to draw the attention of international community to serious human rights violations by the Indian forces, which continue in the occupied valley. Pakistani exporters achieved big success in attaining this objective. He said thousands of visitors evinced keen interest in Kashmiri apples while Pakistani exporters also briefed them about ongoing serious human rights' violation by the Indian forces keeping the people of occupied Kashmir in "jail-like conditions."
Pakistani exhibitors also informed the visitors about likely violent reaction from people of Kashmir after 32 days of continuous lockdown in the valley once the curfew is lifted. Waheed said that the way Prime Minister Imran Khan has highlighted this serious human rights issue at international forums was really commendable. This has also stimulated the private sector to play its role effectively by highlighting this human tragedy in a peaceful manner before the World by exposing the atrocities and serious human violation by the Indian government, he added.
He assured that the association would keep playing it's role of promoting fruits vegetables and other products from Kashmir till the time the oppressed people of the occupied Kashmir do not get their right of self-determination. "We will keep on conveying the message on behalf of the Kashmiri people to the world through the platform of the International exhibitions about cruel acts and serious human right violations by the Indian forces by becoming "voice" of these miserable Kashmiri people," Waheed added.