Punjab University Vice Chancellor Prof Niaz Ahmed Akhtar thanked European countries for supporting Kashmiris who are suffering due to human rights violations in Indian Occupied Kashmir.
Talking to Netherlands Ambassador Wouter Plomp, Sweden’s Ambassador Ingrid Johansson, Prof Niaz Akhtar said that the Indian occupied forces were not allowing even their own politicians and media to access the occupied Kashmiri state for getting on ground information and to explore the situation going on.
Pro-Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Muhammad Saleem Mazhar, Digital Rights Foundation Director Nighat Dad, UNESCO representatives, Institute of Communication Studies Incharge Dr Noshina Saleem, Dr Bushra Rehman, Dr Abida Ejaz, Fahad Mahmood and others were present on the occasion.
Talking to the delegates, the Punjab University vice chancellor demanded of the ambassadors to play their role for access to information in the Indian Occupied Kashmir. He said that the international observers should be given access to the area so that they could independently report and witness what India was doing with more than eight million innocent people. Prof Niaz Akhtar stressed the need to enhance academic collaboration with the European universities. Ambassadors appreciated efforts of the vice chancellor for establishing human rights chair in the university. Delegates also participated in seminar organized in connection with the Universal Day of Access to Information in the Institute of Communication studies.