The Bharat Bangladesh Sampreeti Sangsad (BBSS) Online Welfare Association and Bangladesh Social Activist Forum have held demonstrations in Dhaka protesting atrocities in Pakistan occupied Kashmir.
The BBSS held a human chain cum protest program in front of National Press Club on Friday, while Bangladesh Social Activist Forum held a human chain and protest march at Gulshan roundabout near Pakistan High Commission.
About fifty activists of the organisation led by its Chairman Toufiq Ahmed Tafsir participated in the BBSS programme.
In his address, Toufiq Ahmed demanded Pakistan to protect human rights of the people, particularly of women and children who are under incessant abuse and violence.
He also criticized the Pak govt for sheltering international terrorists and spreading terrorism in the region. The organisation called upon the international forums as well as the Bangladesh authorities to become vocal against these violation of human rights in Pakistan.
Separately, Bangladesh Social Activist protested against increasing intolerance in Pakistan against religious and ethnic minorities, atrocities by Pakistan army in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir against local Kashmiri people, rampant exploitation of natural resources of Gilgit Baltistan against extrajudicial killings in Baluchistan, Sindh, and Karachi.
About sixty volunteers of Bangladesh Social Activist Forum carrying placards and banners participated in the march.
They also raised slogans calling Pakistan to respect human rights in POK, GB and allow visit of a UN sponsored fact finding team to Baluchistan to inquire extrajudicial killings there.
The protesters also demanded unconditional apology from Al-Jazeera TV for their malicious reporting at the behest of foreign elements aimed to discredit democratically elected government of Bangladesh. They condemned unholy nexus of Al-Jazeera- Jamaat-e-Islami and Pakistan, all part of Muslim Brotherhood.
Later, while speaking during the concluding session of the protest Mufti Masum Billah Nafi, President of Bangladesh Social Activist Forum’ said that there would be more such programmes throughout Bangladesh, unless Pakistan recognises the voices of under trodden population living in POK, GB, Baluchistan, and Sindh.
