Wusatullah khan biography

The first ever literary festival held in the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir capital of Muzaffarabad on 3-4 June, 2023, went counterproductive for the organisers when a former BBC journalist Wusatullah Khan blasted Pakistan’s Kashmir Policy right in front of a hostile audience.

The President of Pakistan Art Council, Karachi, Ahmad Shah, who is organising the series of Pakistan Literature Festivals (PLFs) across the country, had asserted in an interview with Geo TV that the Muzaffarabad LitFest would, among cultural and literary subjects, have a “full-fledged session on the Kashmir issue, on 35-A and 370” which, he believed, would enlighten the world opinion about “what India is doing in Kashmir”.

One of the most prominent journalists of Pakistan, who has also covered Jammu and Kashmir’s elections for BBC, Wusatullah Khan blasted Pakistan’s policies, in 1971 on East Pakistan and in the last 75 years on Kashmir, in the very beginning of his speech.

Khan was supposed to speak