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Mahathir gets a mouthful over tweet targeting Kashmir

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Twitterati from across the world has lashed out against the former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad for raising the Kashmir issue on the first anniversar­y of the abrogation of Article 370.

He tweeted, "Now that I am no more the Prime Minister, I take it that I can now speak without restrain and address the Kashmir issue without threats of boycotts and such. At Kashmir's one year lockdown since 5th August"!

Mahathir's comment on Kashmir was criticised by Twitterati who lashed out at him for not speaking about human rights violations against Uyghur Muslims. They also accused him of not raising global concerns over Pakistan sponsored terrorism and human rights violations in Balochista­n, Singh and Khyber Pakhtunkhw­a.

Commenting on Mahathir's tweet, Shoaib Wani said, "Now I can speak freely! if you really mean what you say, can you raise your voice against Uyghur Muslims in China? CCP suppressin­g our fellow Muslims, millions of men held in detention camps, sterilizin­g women without their consent, forcing them to disown Islam".

Mursaleen Farooq tweeted in his comment, "Three million Uighurs are suffering and are forced to live on the feet of Chinese Han. They can't practice Islam, why don't you say a word about them?" "If you really want to be the voice of people, be the voice of innocent Uyghur Muslims of #China, Millions of innocent #Uyghur held in concentrat­ion camps for BEING MUSLIM! China is forcing them to disown Islam by any means possible", tweeted Suleman Rashid.

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