LAHORE: (Thursday, February 20, 2025): Kashmiri hurriyat leader Yasin Malik’s wife Mushaal Malik has said that the Kashmiri people are fighting against India’s one million army, if the Kashmiri people had not stopped India, it would have moved towards Pakistan. She was addressing a seminar organized by the Department of History and Pakistan Studies, Punjab University. On this occasion, Chairman Department of History, Prof Dr Mehboob Hussain, faculty members and students participated. In her address, Mushaal Malik said that after August 5, 2019, the genocide of Kashmiris has increased and they are being targeted for killing. She said that occupied Kashmir has turned into the worst prison in the world. She said that we are throwing our generations into the freedom struggle of Kashmiris. She said that my mother has made her daughter and her granddaughter the vanguard of this freedom movement. She said that when the history of Kashmiris is written, the world will see stories of more oppression than Palestine. She said that Kashmir is a long-standing conflict, where the Kashmiri people have been striving for their rights to self-determination for decades. Dr Mahboob Hussain said that the seminar is important to highlight the historical and research importance of the Kashmir issue, in which Mushaal Malik raised questions on the struggle of the Kashmiri people, Indian atrocities and the impartiality of the judicial system. He said that Mushaal Malik’s appeal to make Yasin Malik’s sacrifices and the partiality of the Indian judicial system a subject of research has attracted the attention of students and teachers towards an important national and human issue. He also highlighted the research being done on Kashmir at PU and the role of the history department in this regard.