Pakistan has demanded that Indian actress Priyanka Chopra be stripped of her UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador role
, saying that her"support for war" and the Indian government amid heightened tensions in the disputed region of Kashmir make a"mockery" of the position.
In a letter addressed to UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore and posted online Wednesday, Pakistan's Human Rights Minister Shireen Mazari asked for the 37-year-old former Miss World to be"immediately denotified" from her role.Chopra was accused of"jingoism" and showing"support for war" by publicly endorsing the Indian government's position on Kashmir, a disputed region that is claimed in full by both India and Pakistan.
— Ministry of Human Rights Government of Pakistan August 21, 2019 Read MoreMazari said the Indian government's position on Indian-controlled Kashmir went"against the principles of peace and goodwill that Ms Chopra is supposed to uphold in her role." Chopra is a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF, the United Nations children's agency."Her jingoism and support for violations by the Modi government of international conventions ...
— PRIYANKA February 26, 2019 In August, after Modi stripped Indian-controlled Kashmir of its special status, a Pakistani woman at a beauty conference in Los Angeles confronted Chopra about her February tweet."It was kind of hard hearing you talk about humanity, because as your neighbor, a Pakistani, I know you're a bit of a hypocrite," Ayesha Malik can be heard saying in a video of the confrontation that was posted on Twitter.
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