NEW YORK, Aug 04 (APP): Salman Bashir, a former Pakistan foreign secretary, Monday urged the United States to assert its moral authority to hold India to account for its oppression in occupied Kashmir at a webinar marking one year since New Delhi revoked the disputed state’s special status that heightened tensions in the region. Bashir, who also served as the ambassador to India, warned that if left unchecked the Kashmiri cauldron could trigger explosions, destroying peace in the region, and sparking wider conflagrations of global magnitude. Speakers at the Webinar, which was organized by the Pakistani Consulate General in New York, also included Pakistan’s Ambassador to the US, Asad Majeed Khan, Ejaz Haider, Executive Editor at Indus News, Muzzammil Ayyub Thakur, President of World Kashmir Freedom Movement, Todd Shea, CEO and founder of Comprehensive Disaster Response Services (CDRS) and Dr. Asif Rehman, Chairman of the Kashmir Humanitarian Task Force 2020. The webinar, “Kashmir’s Continuing Ordeal: A Year After August 5, 2019”, was watched by a large number of people through live broadcast on Facebook and Twitter. In his remarks, Ambassador Salman Bashir said the Kashmiri people had been incarcerated in their homes in a year-long captivity by a million Indian … Continue reading Former top Pakistani official urges US to hold India to account for atrocities in Kashmir