Owaisi must support Uyghur Muslims in China: Zahara Begum

VIJAYAWADA: Minority woman leader and founder of Tahera Trust AP and Telangana, Zahara Begum said that MP Asaduddin Owaisi was playing with the sentiments and emotions of minority Muslims by using religion as a tool. She stated that Owaisi, who used to provoke minorities for political purposes, had now turned mute on the situation of human rights in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, where Muslims were facing severe hardships. She demanded MP Owaisi to work for the resolution of Uyghur Muslim problems by gathering support from Islamic countries.

Zahara Begum said in a release on Saturday that out of 47 member countries of the United Nations Human Rights Council who participated and voted for the draft resolution on ‘debate on the situation of human rights in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China’ submitted by the USA, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and UK. She further said that 19 countries supported and another 19 countries, which included 9 Muslim countries, opposed and 11 members abstained from voting, which included India adhering and committed to UNHRC and is in line with the practice of not voting on country-specific resolutions.

Zahara Begum said that all the Muslim majority countries like Pakistan, Qatar, UAE, Indonesia, Malaysia, Libya, Sudan , Senegal and Cameroon voted against the draft resolution. No Islamic country voted for the draft resolution but they were waiting for the optimal solution of dialogue. She stated that MP Owaisi used to respond to every national and international issue. She questioned what stopped Owaisi all these years and prevented him from mobilising all the Islamic countries against the Chinese oppression of the Uyghur Muslims and why did not he give a call to all the Muslims in India, his party men and other parts of the world to boycott Chinese goods, which would have taught China must faster than anything else.

Zahara Begum sought Owaisi to give a call in support of Uyghur Muslims in China.