Dear all, i was trying to get you in the PM but i guess it doesn't really matter. With the current fiasco of article 370 i have seen a complete lack of mockery of Pakistani state and her citizens. We all live abroad, europe to be precise and we know that there is no love for India or Indians here (on ground), neither they do care about what goes in other part of the world. However, Indians have quite a lobbying power, they project themselves in whatever settings they are in and make use of it to influence. Unfortunately, so far in europe Pakistan's narrative is lacking since majority of Pakistanis who are settled here are uneducated small business owner with zero interaction with local community and politics (excluding UK). Hence, it is very important for educated, well settled Pakistanis to make a plight for Kashmir cause, for now what i was thinking is to write eu MEPs.
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home
https://www.parliament.uk/get-involved/contact-your-mp/ (for UK)
you can search the eu MEPs representing your respective countries, best to write to the representatives of liberal parties.
For the content we have to work on a draft, backing with EU human right laws, linking it with proofs to Indian atrocities and human right abuses in Kashmir and recent incident and ask them to voice it in EU parliament. That's for one measure.
For another, every major university have Pakistanis student associations, which are governed by university laws and can arrange for university wide campaigns. For Pakistanis here who are students, or are living in university cities shall contact the student associations and arrange the awareness campaigns among students. Contact the local embassy of Pakistan may be they can be of any help.
The more overseas Pakistanis voice this and will take up this matter to internationalize this issue, the less; majority (youth) here in europe don't go watch news daily or watch general assembly speeches by a random countries PM. Narratives have to be built by Pakistani origin diaspora. Because our foreign office, embassy staff every single one of them are incompetent and are on such positions because of nepotism.
I have written this specifically for EU based Pakistanis, however, other countries residents shall also voice their opinion in such manner and contact their local MEPs but before doing that we have to work on a draft.
(other ideas are welcome however please don't dilute the topic and stick to the topic of discussion).
@war&peace @PWFI @313ghazi @masterchief_mirza @Goenitz @waz @Umar27 @Chakar The Great
For the third and final measure, Pakistan needs an English media outlet, a opinion site where great ideas and narratives can be shared internationally; current Pakistani english media outlets are incompetent to say the least and work on an agenda driven reporting but for that i want to discuss separately in another thread.
@Dubious can you please make it sticky thread.
