Srinagar, 24 Feb: (CNI) Yana Mir, a social activist and a journalist from Jammu and Kashmir, was honoured in the UK Parliament with the Diversity Ambassador award. Ms Mir’s speech countering “propaganda” against Jammu and Kashmir is going viral, where she said she is “not a Malala Yousafzai”, the Nobel Peace Prize winner from Pakistan who has taken refuge in the UK.
According to news agency Current News Of Indian (CNI) At an event hosted by the Jammu and Kashmir Study Centre, UK, Ms Mir said, “I’m not a Malala Yousafzai…because I’m safe and free in my homeland Kashmir, which is part of India. I will never run away from my homeland and seek refuge in your country (UK). I can never be a Malala Yousafzai.”
Ms Mir then slammed the Nobel laureate for “defaming” India by calling Kashmir “oppressed” and said “I object to all such toolkit members from social media and foreign media who never cared to visit Kashmir in India but fabricate stories of oppression…I urge you to stop polarizing Indians on the grounds of religion. We won’t allow you to break us.”
She concluded her speech with a request and said, “Stop coming after us and let my Kashmir community live in peace.”
The video has over a million views on X (formerly Twitter). Yana Mir in her reply to the video said, “The Malala theory was given to her by her sister”.-(CNI)
