ISLAMABAD (AP) — The eleven-year-old daughter of a outstanding Kashmiri insurgent chief who was sentenced to life in prison in neighboring India issued an emotional attraction on Thursday, urging New Delhi to permit her to fulfill her ailing father.

Razia Sultan, the daughter of Mohammed Yasin Malik, 57, made this emotional demand after she was allowed to deal with the regional legislative meeting in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

“I was only two years old when I met my father. I have now turned 11,” she mentioned in a televised speech. “I miss my father like anything. I crave to hear his voice.”

Sultan mentioned she would maintain Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi accountable if any hurt was brought about to her father. She mentioned she hoped that someday her father could be launched, and he had been wrongly sentenced in a “fake case.”

Malik was arrested in 2019 and was sentenced to life in jail final yr by an Indian court docket on expenses of terrorism and sedition. His arrest triggered clashes between protesters and police within the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir. Two months in the past, the Indian National Investigation Agency had additionally approached the New Delhi High Court searching for the demise penalty for Malik. The court docket has but to rule on that.

During his trial, Malik protested the costs towards him, saying was a freedom fighter. “If seeking azadi (freedom) is a crime, then I am ready to accept this crime and its consequences,” he instructed the decide forward of his conviction.

Malik for years had headed the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, one of many first armed insurgent teams in Indian-controlled Kashmir, however he later shifted to a peaceable battle to hunt an finish to Indian rule in Kashmir.

In 2009, Malik traveled to Pakistan, the place he married Mushaal Hussein, and he has just one daughter.

Kashmir is divided between Pakistan and India and is claimed by each in its entirety. The international locations have fought two of their wars over Kashmir. Rebels have been preventing since 1989 for Kashmir’s independence from India or its merger with Pakistan.

Most Muslim Kashmiris help the insurgent aim of uniting the territory, both underneath Pakistani rule or as an impartial nation.