ArmInfo. "If I lived in Pakistan, I would naturally be persecuted for visiting Nagorno-Karabakh, but fortunately I live there no longer," Kamal Khan, Pakistani human rights defender, observer from the German delegation, has told ArmInfo's correspondent.
"I had to leave Pakistan due to the activities I conducted in the human rights area. Naturally, I will not return to Pakistan, because I will be persecuted there as soon as I get there. If the situation in the country changed and if my rights were protected, I would gladly return to my Motherland. But today it is ruled out," Khan says.
When commenting on the fact that Azerbaijan has "blacklisted" him for visiting Nagorno-Karabakh, Khan says that he is not afraid of such lists and that human rights matter to him most of all. When explaining the reasons that made him visit Karabakh, the observer says that he often comes across reports about human rights violation by Azerbaijan. "There are a lot of documents and documentaries about it. I wanted to get first-hand information of the real situation. Before coming here I had repeatedly heard that the country is at war, unsafe and that it has a despotic regime. Today I am here and I have only positive emotions. The people here are very amiable. If I have an opportunity, I will come here again," Khan says.