{"id":5441,"date":"2023-05-23T10:10:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T05:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=5441"},"modified":"2023-05-23T10:10:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T05:10:34","slug":"hundreds-rally-in-pakistan-administered-kashmir-against-india-g20-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/security\/hundreds-rally-in-pakistan-administered-kashmir-against-india-g20-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds rally in Pakistan-administered Kashmir against India G20 meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MUZAFFARABAD, May 23  &#8211; Hundreds of people rallied in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on Monday to protest arch rival India&#8217;s decision to host a G20 tourism meeting in its part of the disputed Himalayan region, said a government official.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Delhi is hosting the&nbsp;key conference&nbsp;in Kashmir&#8217;s summer capital Srinagar from Monday to Wednesday, a move which Pakistan and longtime ally&nbsp;China have opposed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several protesters demonstrated in Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, and other cities, chanting: &#8220;Go India go back and boycott, boycott G20 boycott!&#8221; , said the official Raja Azhar Iqbal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari visited the region and addressed Kashmir&#8217;s legislative assembly on Monday. He termed the G20 gathering as illegal, and an attempt by India to seek legitimacy over its control of the disputed region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;India is misusing its position as G20 chair,&#8221; he said, and urged the world to take note of New Delhi&#8217;s &#8220;gross human rights violations&#8221; since India scrapped Kashmir&#8217;s special status in August 2019 and converted it into a federal territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The G20 tourism working group meeting is the first international event in the region since the conversion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indian foreign ministry didn&#8217;t respond to a request for a comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nuclear-armed nations, Pakistan and India have fought three wars since independence from Britain in 1947, two of them over Kashmir, which they each claim in full but control parts of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>G20 consists of 19 rich nations and the European Union. India at present holds it presidency, and is set to host its annual summit in New Delhi in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India hopes the meeting will help revive international tourism in the scenic Kashmir Valley which has been roiled by a violent Islamist insurgency against Indian rule since 1989, although violence levels have fallen in recent years and domestic tourism boomed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of people rallied in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on Monday to protest arch rival India&#8217;s decision to host a G20 tourism meeting in its part of the disputed Himalayan region, said a government official.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":5442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,84,82,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-india","category-paksitan","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}