Srinagar: Former Actress Zaira Wasim took to Instagram to share a long post about the plights of the residents of Kashmir. In a touching post, Zaira, who hails from Kashmir, wrote that Kashmir continues to suffer.
“Kashmir continues to suffer and see-saw between hope and frustration। There’s a false and uneasy semblance of calmness in place of escalating despair and sorrow. Kashmiris continue to exist and suffer in a world where it is so easy to place restrictions on our liberty,” she wrote.
She added: “Why do we have to live in a world where our lives and wills are controlled, dictated and bent? Why is it so easy to have our voices silenced? Why is it so easy to curtail our freedom of expression? Why aren’t we ever allowed to voice our opinions, let alone our disprovals to decisions that are made contrary to our wishes?”
“Why is it that instead of trying to see the cause of our view, our view is just condemned ruthfully? What is so easy to curb our voices so severely? Why can we not live simple lives without always having to wrestle and remind the world of our existence? Why is that life of a Kashmiri is just about experiencing a lifetime of crisis, blockade and disturbance so abundantly that it has taken away the recognition of normalcy and harmony from the hearts and minds?” She further added
In the post, she requests the world to ‘not believe the unfair representation of facts’. “Ask questions. For our voices have been silenced- and for how long….none of us really know!” she wrote.
Kashmir went through months of internet shutdown after the special status was revoked on August 5. Mobile internet services were restored in the Kashmir Valley on January 25.
In June last year, Zaira shocked everyone by announcing her decision to quit the film industry saying she was not happy with the line of work as it interfered with her religion. She was last seen in Shonali Bose’s The Sky is Pink, starring Priyanka Chopra and Farhan Akhtar.
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