ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Pakistan has said that it condemns brutal human rights violations of Indian forces in the Occupied Kashmir in the strongest possible terms.
“These are but a small reflection of the gravest excesses India is carrying out in the Valley, which tower even the blackest of human tragedies in world history,” the Foreign Office Spokesman Dr Muhammad Faisal said on Thursday in his weekly media briefing in Islamabad.
The Spokesman said that the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) report on Kashmir is a reflection of Pakistan’s repeated calls to the International Community to take stock of India’s brutal use of pellet guns, indiscriminate firing, use of human shield and promulgation of draconian AFPSA and SPA laws that are making lives of Kashmiris in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IoK) a living hell.
“We call upon the international community to take cognizance of the human rights situation in IoK as well as the OHCHR report, and immediately call India to account to stop the bloodshed and give the Kashmiris their just right to self-determination through an UN-mandated plebiscite,” he said.
Dr Faisal further said that in Indian Occupied Jammu & Kashmir, brutal killing and maiming of innocent civilians continued with impunity.
The Spokesman said that the Indian occupation forces killed eight Kashmiris last week including 13-year-old Andleeb Jan, 11th grade student Ubaid Manzoor Lone, 10th grade student Tamsheel Ahmad Khan, 19-year-old Shakir Ahmad Khanday, 22-year-old Irshad Ahmad Lone, and Sameer Ahmad Sheikh in Kulgam, Shopian, Sopore and Kupwara areas.
While inhumane killing of Kashmiri youth continues unabated, Indian occupation forces also injured over 170 innocent civilians during last week with use of brute force including bullets, pellets and teargas shells, he added.
In addition, he said that a matter of grave concern is the shifting of aged female resistance leader Syeda Aasiya Andrabi, as well as Nahida Nasreen and Fehmeeda Sofi to India’s infamous Tihar jail, wherein other detained political leaders like Shabbir Ahmad Shah, Masarrat Alam Bhat and others are already languishing in inhumane conditions with acute danger to their health and wellbeing.
