The National Kashmir Alliance has installed a ‘Clock of Conscience’ outside the US Consulate in Lahore to shake the world conscience over the worst atrocities being committed by Indian security forces against Kashmiri Muslims since revocation of special status of the occupied valley on August 5.
According to leaders of the NKA, a platform for raising voice against the usurpation of fundamental rights of Kashmiri Muslims by Indian government, the purpose of the ‘Clock of Conscience’ is to make the civilised world realise the most inhumane torture and cruelty Indian army is committing against the helpless 13 million population of occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The ‘Clock of Conscience’ is a board which is painted with time in terms of days, hours and minutes since New Delhi imposed indefinite curfew and cut off all communication links, including phone, internet, radio, TV and media.
Addressing the gathering after installation of the clock, NKA leader Prof Hamida Tariq said 25 days have passed since India turned Kashmir into a virtual jail for unarmed and helpless Muslims to punish them for demanding freedom and democratic rights. She termed Indian army’s atrocities in Kashmir as the worst kind of torture in the human history, and said the manner in which children, youth, men and women are being killed and made handicapped under a systematic genocide conspiracy has never been witnessed in the world.
She warned that if the civilized world failed to stand up to protect the Kashmiri Muslims against Indian genocide, the world would forget the likes of Hitler and Halaku Khan, and would only remember Modi as the worst and biggest killer of human population. She said the ‘Clock of Conscience’ is a symbolic effort to stir the world conscience and to express complete solidarity with the oppressed Kashmiri brethren, besides displaying the resolve to raise voice for the usurped human rights of Kashmiris at every platform.
NKA leader Saima Ali Dada said the ‘Clock of Conscience’ is an attempt to remind the world that 13 million people of Kashmiris have been besieged in the largest open-air jail surrounded by nine-hundred-thousand-strong Indian army which has been indiscriminately killing, maiming and missing countless number of them every day in the broad day light.
