Former US military personnel along with the Kashmiri community and Indian Americans demonstrated outside the Pakistani embassy in Washington to support Pakistan's terrorist groups. The protesters shouted slogans like 'Pakistan is the Taliban', 'Pakistan is a terrorist country' and '(Osama) bin Laden kahan tha' and demanded that Pakistan be declared a sponsor of terrorism.
Former military personnel David Deenstag said, 'I have come to spread awareness about India's role in America. Pakistan is killing American sons and daughters by supporting the Taliban and this is often done with the money of American taxpayers. Taxpayers are not even aware of this. Alicia Andrews, who is contesting the Congress (Parliament) election from Congressional District Virginia, also joined the protest. He said that it is important to 'stand back' for those whom terrorist organizations are constantly targeting. 'We cannot ignore the country that is supporting so many terrorist groups'.
Indian-American protester Manga Ananthamula said, 'We all know how Pakistan is nurturing terrorism. The world does not know about the massacre of Kashmir. Pakistan is responsible for killing more than 25000 Kashmiri Hindus. Mithila, who was a victim of excesses against Kashmiri Pandits in Jammu and Kashmir, said that the removal of the provisions of Article 370 is a ray of hope for the community.
Mohan Sapru, organizer of the rally and Washington DC coordinator of the 'Global Kashmiri Pandit Community', said that demonstrators from different communities and backgrounds strongly condemned Pakistan's policy of promoting terrorism in India, Afghanistan and some western countries and expressed their anger Gathered for.
