Pakistan has a long and profound history of falling in their own traps, and they seem to have done it once again. Pakistan recently released 20,000 sheets of 20 propaganda stamps about alleged atrocities at Indian Kashmir. However the fun fact is, several of these stamps exhibit protests that were actually against the atrocities by Pakistan funded terrorists. Further, one stamp depicts the victims of chemical weapons.

An organization of exiled Kashmiri Pandits named, Roots in Kashmir, wrote a letter to UN secretary general Antonio Guterres on Monday, complaining that one of the stamps was the picture of an RIK-organised protest of Pandits against their exodus forced by Pak-backed terror groups.

The stamp is “a malicious attempt to raise the bogey of Kashmir” by “appropriating the exodus and exile of Pandits,” RIK said. The organisation said that the stamp was also “a spiteful attempt at not just deflecting blame but also to deny the victims of ethnic cleansing a right to protest by appropriating their symbols of protest”.

One of the stamps had a line in Urdu, which read: “Kashmir will become Pakistan”. As per Pakistani media, there was no information on whose idea the 20 propaganda stamps was but the proposal had been cleared by the communications ministry, the foreign ministry and the prime minister’s office.

After learning about the recently released propaganda stamps, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj canceled meeting with her Pakistani counterpart, that was scheduled to take place on the sidelines of UN General Assembly.

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