Regarding Anti-India protests by Pakistani groups
분야: 외교/통일/국방
청원 기간: 2019-08-20 ~ 2019-09-19

To the Blue-house, It has come to the notice of the Indian community living in South Korea that some protests demonstrated by a group of Pakistanis in different part of Seoul has taken place in August 2019 against the parliamentary decision of the Indian government regarding the abrogation of the article 370 related to special status of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. These protests were organized to put India in bad light and calling provocative slogans like “India Terrorist” etc. this is evident in the last video (link at the end of the petition), In another video a man can be seen threatening back a lady politician named Shazia Ilmi from India, with derogatory slogans. Sir, we are of the opinion that these kinds of protest on a foreign land to show Indian into the bad light by Pakistan should quickly be brought to check and people who were shouting slogans like “India terrorists” should be brought to book. These two protests were highly provocative in nature and was permitted by the Police and concerned authorities in Seoul. Though we maintain that everybody has the right to stage peaceful protest in a democracy but slogans like these were far from being peaceful in nature and have potentials to create animosity or clashes between the Indian and Pakistani expats living in Korea along with potentially damaging the India-Korea bilateral relations. Therefore, we would collectively request you to take quick actions in regards to the same. This is to reiterate that we Indians might differ on our stands regarding the abrogation of article 370 as it is a democratic procedure but at the same time we maintain that any third country has no business to intervene with the jurisdictions of the Indian state in the matters pertaining to the practice of its sovereignty. These happenings in Seoul also call for a responsible handling by the government of Republic of Korea. Hence, we put forth our demands as follows in front of the government of Korea. • Immediately bring to book all those who called India a terrorist country and aimed to show India into bad lights. • Such protests aimed to project India into a bad light should not be allowed any further. • Any further protest, if allowed, must be monitored and controlled and the nature of sloganeering and conduct of the protest must be made clear in advance by the protesters to the permitting authorities so that no diversion from the pre-declared nature of the protest must be allowed. • South Korean government must clarify its position to the Indian community living in Korea that whether they agree that matters pertaining to Jammu and Kashmir are the internal matters of India and that any third party has no say into it. Sir, at the end we would like to mention that both India and South Korea are countries with strengthening partnership and both are credible democracies in the world. We the people of both the countries have cooperated very well in the past and continuously strive to make relations better at present and we must continue our efforts in the positive directions. Thank you very much for your understanding.