Yana Mir speech in the “Sankalp Divas” hosted by the UK Parliament in London has gone viral.
She said, “I’m not a Malala Yousafzai. I’m not a Malala Yousafzai because I am free and I am safe in my country India, in my home in Kashmir which is part of India.”
She slams Pakistan for their “Propaganda mechanism” by saying that she is “safe” in her country. Also, she mentioned that she doesn’t need to “run away” like Malala adding, “I will never need to run away from my homeland and seek refuge in your country.”
Mir criticises Malala and Pak
She was slamming Malala in her speech who shifted to UK from Pakistan after she was shot in 2012 by a Taliban gunman. She was attacked during her campaign for girls education in her hometown. At the age of 17, Malala became the youngest Nobel peace prize recipient for advocating girls education in 2014.
Mir called out Malala and Pakistan for calling Kashmir people ‘Oppressed’, “I will never ever be a Malala Yousafzai but I object to Malala defaming my country, my progressive homeland, by calling it oppressed. I object to all such ‘toolkit members’ on social media and foreign media who never cared to visit Indian Kashmir, but, fabricate stories of ‘oppression’ from there.”
She also added, “I urge you all to stop polarising Indians on grounds of religion, we won’t allow you to break up us. I hope our perpetrators living in the UK, in Pakistan will stop maligning my country”.
Additionally, she thanked Sajid Yousuf Shah, the person in charge of BJP media in Kashmir and she revealed that her sister came up with this Malala theory through the Social Media post on X.
Yana Mir, who is also a part of Jammu and Kashmir Youth Society, was invited to address a “Sankalp Divas” event hosted by the Jammu and Kashmir Study Centre UK (JKSC) in the British Parliament building. The JKSC, which hosted the event is a think-tank dedicated to the study of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
