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Harut Sassounian

Harut Sassounian

California Courier Editor
Harut Sassounian is the publisher of The California Courier, a weekly newspaper based in Glendale, Calif. He is the president of the Armenia Artsakh Fund, a non-profit organization that has donated to Armenia and Artsakh one billion dollars of humanitarian aid, mostly medicines, since 1989 (including its predecessor, the United Armenian Fund). He has been decorated by the presidents of Armenia and Artsakh and the heads of the Armenian Apostolic and Catholic churches. He is also the recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

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  1. Pakistan is the hub of Islamic terrorism. It exports terrorists everywhere – Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, China, USA, India, U.K.The recent attack in Ohio university, USA, also was by a Muslim terrorist brainwashed,if not trained, Pakistan.

    Pakistan supported Turkey in its earlier genocides and also e ongoing one in Syria, where Turks are killing locals to overrow the government.

    • Do You Realize How Stupid You Sound.It Is Very Much Obvious You Are An Indian Commenting With A Pakistani Name.

    • Not even. It’s an open secret that India has been funding both the BLA and TTP against Pakistan.

  2. I am from Pakistan and fully support Armenia and Arminian cause. Armenians are great people, great country. Very peace loving people. In fact Armenia is victim and proof that hundreds of thousands forced to leave their motherland and seek refuge in other countries.

    • Are you sure qaiser i dont know what happened and i bet even you too between azerbaijan and armenia but we can guess at least from the nature of nations like:
      — Armenia should vote against pro-Pakistani issues in the UN General Assembly;

      — Armenia should block Pakistan’s efforts to associate itself with the Eurasian Economic Union;

      — Armenia should side with India in its dispute with Pakistan over Jammu and Kashmir;

      — Armenian-Americans should urge the U.S. Congress to hold hearings on Pakistan’s grave human rights violations.
      These policies proves their genocides is they were right about no genocide they would have send a delegation with proofs and we will favour them.

    • As if Pakistan is loved by the world, they are not even recognized by Afghanistan and have a land dispute with them. And China is only using them to gain access to influence in the Arabian Sea and adjacent areas. Paki government looks at relationships through a religious scope instead of a humanity one

  3. I am a journalist from Islamabad and I may tell you that majority of Pakistanis are unaware of Armenian Genocide. Here live humans so I started to rise the Armenian voice and started to let my people know what happened to helpless Armenians…. can you believe this year we on aired the news report of genocide on 24th April, I can provide the clipping if required. So this is all about the awareness. I recently visited the Julfa area in Isfahan where live the Armenians and met people, they were amazed that a Pakistani knew that much about the Armenian genocide…. so please start interactions, many Pakistani live in Europe, US and other parts of the world so don’t run away from them…talk to them and aware them please. Last word… who is the terrorist in the world only people know who have some knowledge. Regards

  4. Happy to hear that Armenia’s political leaders have finally realized that Pakistan’s non-recognition is not a one-edged sword. It means that Armenia shall not recognize Pakistan in response with all its adverse effect for Pakistan.

  5. I wonder why the Pakistani government tend to be a greater genocidist than the shameful genocidal Turkey?

  6. I’m from PAKISTAN, I grown up knowing from our childhood that Pakistan and Israel had no diplomatic relations, and none were even intended. But Armenia?
    Pakistan should take steps on reality not on only Islamic Brotherhood. Pakistan is facing much problems than any other country by terrorism, So don’t blame on Pakistan as support to terrorists.

  7. India try to build a good relationship with Armenia. Modi just visited Armenia. Opportunities is immense in collaboration in IT and medicine.

  8. Dear Harut Sassounian,
    Indeed it is a surprise for many Pakistanis that our country has yet to recognize Armenia. Such strange policy of blindly following Turkey, Azerbaijan narrative is rather silly. Let me assure you that I personally will highlight this matter in our press and other news platforms. But you have to understand this: You have an on-going dispute with Azerbaijan and Turkey, the closest friends of Pakistan. Now Pakistan is the only country that can somehow shrink a gap between Armenia and Azerbaijan because they will listen to us. So instead of responding to Pakistan with hostility, Armenia should try to communicate with Pakistan. EEU would have been a good option for starter. Lastly, please don’t try to bring in India to counter Pakistan. India would only hurt your interests as it already has not so much cordial diplomatic relations with both Turkey and Azerbaijan so they would not further deteriorate their relations. Instead they will use Armenia to hurt Pakistan. Lastly as you have given some suggestions, allow me to give some of my own:
    1. Let’s have journalists interactions/sharing of thoughts.
    2. Provide us information and Armenian official stand.
    3. Find reasons to engage Pakistan on economic front. Tell us we can help you with that.
    4. Please understand Pakistan has very strong relations with Turkey and Azerbaijan. We would never jeopardize them so you and us have to find a mutual interest bypassing the current diplomatic scenario.
    May Armenia have a bright and prosperous future.
    I would love to hear from you.
    Thank you

    • Thank you for your thoughtful reply.

      I think the mutual interest is the recognition of self-determination as a UNIVERSAL human right for both the peoples of Kashmir and Nagorno-Karabakh. The respective situations of Kashmiris and Artsakhis align in that they exist under borders crafted by outsiders and NOT according to the wishes of the people who live there and the Armenians in Azerbaijan have experienced pogroms against them in like manner that Muslims in India have experienced them in Gujarat and New Delhi.

      Given the tragic legacy of the late Ottoman Empire having prosecuted a campaign of genocide against Armenians in the early 20th century century, transcendence might be a bit much of an ask. Do you suppose that Pakistan would be willing to recognize the Armenian genocide, couching in in the narrative that that was not an act of the modern state of Turkey?

      Acknowledging that historic collective wound and affirming the injustice of it would go far, I would think.

    • Azerbaijan buys weapons from Israel, thus helping fund Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.

  9. In regards to the idea that Armenia should side with India in the Kashmir dispute, this is exactly the WRONG position to take, because denying the right to Kashmiri self-determination to spite Pakistan cedes moral high ground, because it gives the appearance of hypocrisy. The objectively moral position is to support the right of self-determination for ALL people and not bias recognition of human rights on the basis of religious identity, like Pakistan and Azerbaijan are doing, by recognizing that right only for Muslims.

    The Kashmiri people are suffering egregious war crimes under Indian occupation; torture, mass rapes and extrajudicial murder. On the basis of simple human decency and being bound as a contracting party to the Geneva Conventions and UN Charter, it must be condemned.

    Returning spite for spite does little to morally or ideologically distinguish Armenia from Azerbaijan or Pakistan. Condemning India’s actions in IOK and supporting self-determination as a universal human right also deprives Pakistani antipathy toward Armenia of much of its energy.

    • Laura Standley, What about Pakistan atrocities against Kashmiris in POK? They are very well documented. I don’t see a single word in your writeup condemning the ill treatment of Kashmiris by Pakistan, which also includes murdering, raping, forcibly converting to islam, and driving out the indigenous Kashmiri Hindus (called Pandits) from Kashmir. Since your writeup is full of bias, I hope you don’t have any real influence in Armenian policy making.

  10. Pakistan should recognize Arminia . Arminia is a nice country and they suffered a lot already in the last century

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