New Delhi: A Pakistani cleric Mufti Saeed Khan, who is known to have tropical links with former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, has so-called that insurgents operating in Kashmir coerced vulnerable women into sexual exploitation in mart for vital necessities like food.
What did Mufti Saeed Khan say?
Mufti Saeed Khan made remarks during a public lecture titled 'Kashmir and our hypocrisy'.
In his address, Khan described what he tabbed a “dark reality” of the insurgency, ultimatum that women and girls in refugee camps were forced to trade sexual favours for “a single roti.”
In his remark, Khan said that Kashmiri Muslim women and girls in refugee camps were forced to trade their persons for “a single roti".
The cleric said that thess groups often portrayed as "mujahideen" or religious warriors preyed upon displaced and economically distressed women, exploiting their vulnerability tween ongoing instability.
During the address, Khan said that there is a pattern of urgency where survival needs were weaponised versus civilians, particularly women.
What did the intelligence say?
According to Indian intelligence sources, the statement by Khan is a “significant internal confession,” noting that such admissions from within Pakistan’s religious and political ecosystem are rare. Officials believe the comments significantly undermines the country’s long-propagated narrative of a “pure jihad".
The remark controversy has once then brought focus to the humanitarian forfeit of prolonged mismatch in the region, expressly on women and displaced populations.
It moreover raises hair-trigger questions well-nigh accountability, the role of state and non-state actors, and the lived realities overdue geopolitical narratives.
