ISLAMABAD: University students in Pakistan’s capital of Islamabad participated in a dramatic re-enactment of a humanitarian crisis in Indian-administered Kashmir, which was flooded with troops and stripped of its special legal status by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Aug. 5th, with a near-total communications blackout and curfew in place since.

The student performance took place in central Islamabad, in the city’s largest mall, with the wife of jailed Kashmiri leader, Yasin Malik, invited to speak to the audience.

Speaking to Arab News during the event, Mushaal Mullick said bilateralism had proven to be a failure, and appealed to the UN and international community to intervene.

“This is the responsibility of the first world, the United Nations (must) take action,” she said.

“Right now, I would expect the United Nations to refer our case to the ICJ (International Court of Justice) because they (India) have revoked all multilateral agreements and all bilateral treaties, and 50 years of bilateralism has been an ultimate, spectacular failure,” she said, on the eve of the 74th UN General Assembly session in New York where Prime Minister Imran Khan has vowed to campaign for the rights of Kashmiris in his speech on Monday.

Pakistan and India have fought two of their three wars over the Muslim majority Himalayan region of roughly 12 million people, which both countries own in part but claim in full. India has maintained that the abrogation of Kashmir’s partial autonomy is the country’s internal matter.