'I am not Malala. I am safe in my country...': Kashmiri activist's speech goes viral

A video has gone viral on the internet where proclaimed Kashmiri activist Yana Mir delivered a speech in the British Parliament building, denouncing Pakistan's propaganda against India on the security situation in Kashmir.

Drawing parallels with Mala Yousafzai who was shot in Pakistan for advocating women's rights, Yana Mir said, 'I am not a Malala Yousafzai. I am not a Malala Yousafzai, because I will never have to run away from my home country.'

Yana Mir calls herself Kashmir's first female vlogger. She is a journalist too. In her speech, she said, 'I am free, and I am safe in my country India, in my home in Kashmir which is part of India.'

"But I object to you, Malala Yousafzai, defaming my country, my progressing 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", said Yana Mir.

Yana Mir further said, '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.'

She delivered this speech at the Sankalp Divas event hosted by the Jammu and Kashmir Study Centre UK (JKSC) in the British Parliament building.

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