By The South Asia Times

MUZZAFARABAD - Prominent pro-freedom Kashmiri leader Yasin Malik’s young daughter made headlines on Thursday to speak at the Kashmir assembly and urged the world to help her father who is in Indian custoday since long.

11 years old Razia Sultana, while addressing the Legislative Assembly of Azad Jammu and Kashmir said that her father's life is in danger in Indian authorities’ custody and urged the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to raise his voice for Malik.

“ I was only three years old when last time meet my father and since then he is in Indian custody,” Sultana told the lawmakers.

Earlier upon arrival in the hall, Speaker of the Assembly Chaudhry Latif Akbar and lawmakers welcomed Sultana and said today is a historical day as the youngest speaker addressing to the lawmakers in the assembly.

“Elections are going to be held in India by next year and anything could expect from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to win these elections,” Akbar said, while referring the 2019 Pulwama attack in Indian occupied Kashmir which according to Kashmiris carried out by Indian intelligence agencies to blame Pakistan and pave way for Modi to win the elections. 

Last year, an Indian court sentenced Malik to life in prison in a fake case of terrorism financing as New Delhi accused him of funding terrorism, waging war, and disturbing the peace in Kashmir.

He has been under detention at Delhi’s Tihar Jail since 2019 along with several other top pro-freedom leaders and activists, some of whom have also been charged in the same case.

“My father is a symbol of resistance,” Sultana said and hoped he will soon be freed from this fake trial and will be among us.

“I want to tell Prime Minister Modi that if anything happens to my father, he will be held responsible,” Malik’s young daughter said and demanded the United Nations to take notice of Indian atrocities as Yasin Malik's life is in danger.