In a letter written to Rahul Gandhi, former aide to the Prime Minister of Pakistan on human rights and women’s empowerment, Meshaal has drawn attention to the ongoing trial against the country in the three-decade-old treason case. In this, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has requested to give him the death penalty.
Kashmiri separatist leader Malik himself is arguing a plea filed against him by the NIA in the Delhi High Court in a terror money laundering case. The NIA has filed an appeal in the case and requested the court to sentence Malik to death.
The NIA had filed a chargesheet against several people, including Malik, in the 2017 case. In 2022, a lower court sentenced Malik to life imprisonment. Mishal said that Yasin Malik is on an indefinite hunger strike since November 2 against the inhuman treatment in the jail. This hunger strike will further affect the health of the country. This will endanger the life of a person who has chosen to lay down arms and follow the path of non-violence.
Mishal alleged that the BJP government has been harassing Yasin Malik in all unimaginable ways since 2019. He said that the country is being tried in a 35-year-old case of waging war against India and now the NIA is demanding death penalty in trumped-up cases filed against it. “I request Rahul Gandhi to exercise his superior moral and political influence in Parliament and start a debate on the Yasin Malik issue,” Mishal said. This can be a means of maintaining real peace in Jammu and Kashmir, not just a pretense.
