MATTU – Microcephalic Children in Pakistan Administered JK (Documentary)
Filmmaker Jawad Ahmed Paras reached out to a family in a small town of neelum valley to find out the reasons for Microcephaly.
Filmmaker Jawad Ahmed Paras reached out to a family in a small town of neelum valley to find out the reasons for Microcephaly.
Last year Iftikhar Gilani, a Delhi based Kashmiri journalist who spent ten months in Tihar wrote in his book that Maqbool Butt’s grave in prison has been built over. There are two other graves waiting for the body of Maqbool Butt.
“Social media has helped him to bring his business to the customers. He received most of the customers from social media for his online store rather than for my offline store.
The people of that area were oppressed and subjected to worst treatment. Feudalism, landlordism, moneylenders, everything was there. And there was repression from the British government and Maharaja as well. We were in school those days, and this ill treatment did not let us to be mute spectators. We started resistance against this oppression when our age was just around 15 years.
Frankly, I don’t think both countries will. Even Pakistan, which keeps talking about freedom for J&K, is basically hostile to the idea. After all, Islamabad is only a few miles from the border of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, and if J&K becomes independent, Pakistan would find the international border too close to its capital.