MUZAFFARABAD: Expressing deep concern over the Indian atrocities in occupied Kashmir, Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Masood Khan on Tuesday urged the United Nations to take practical steps to halt the massacre of Kashmiris in the held valley.
In his message on the eve of Kashmir Solidarity Day, Khan said that inhuman curfew and communication blackout continued in the held valley on the 185th consecutive day.
He said that Kashmir Solidarity Day has become an international movement against the Indian forces. The president said that the Indian troops, during curfew, were killing Muslim youth in occupied Kashmir, adding that the Indian army chief had confirmed that the troops were also involved in kidnapping people in the held valley.
Underscoring the need of a corridor for the oppressed Kashmiris in occupied Kashmir, Masood Khan said that in principle, UN is responsible to stop massacre of Kashmiris.
Last year on December 6, the Azad Jammu and Kashmir cabinet had appealed the United Nations and other international human rights organizations to take notice of humanitarian crisis and war crimes in occupied Kashmir.
The cabinet at its meeting in Muzaffarabad, had strongly condemned unending curfew, lock-down and human rights violations in the occupied Kashmir and had decided to expose Indian false narrative at all available forums.
The meeting presided over by Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan had decided not to leave the Kashmiris alone in this critical time when India unilaterally and illegally revoked Articles 370 and 35-A and conspiring to alter demography of the disputed territory by settling non-state subjects in the occupied territory.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi:
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in his message to the international community must do more to support the Kashmiris “in this time of trial and tribulation”. He noted that each additional second on the lockdown clock is a burden on the world’s collective conscience.
The foreign minister said the international community must act in support of the fundamental freedoms and basic human rights of Kashmiris and urge India to allow the UN Fact-Finding Mission to occupied Kashmir to ascertain the reports of grave human rights violations there.
Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan
Firdous Ashiq Awan said Kashmir Solidarity Day being observed today, reminds of the ultimate oppression of the Indian security forces on the people of the Indian Occupied Jammu & Kashmir, when on 21st January, 1990 they opened fire on the demonstrators protesting against the rape of a woman by Indian security forces personnel. The incident created unprecedented outrage within the occupied valley, Pakistan and across the world wherever the Kashmiri diaspora lived. In Pakistan, a complete strike was observed on 5th of February, 1991. Since then Kashmir Solidarity Day is observed every year with the objective of expressing solidarity with the people of IOJ&K and to sensitize the world about their obligations towards the people of Kashmir. This year, Kashmir Solidarity Day comes at a time when the whole Valley is under siege since 5th of August 2019, after the illegal and unilateral decision of India to revoke the special status of IOJ&K, in an attempt to further consolidate its illegal occupation of the territory. Indian action constitutes an affront to the conscience of world community as it practically nullifies UN resolutions on Kashmir. For Pakistan, Kashmir is an unfinished agenda of the partition of the subcontinent. Pakistan has been extending moral, political and diplomatic support to the people of Kashmir and would continue to do so till they get their just right of self-determination. Pakistan desires a peaceful solution of the issue in consonance with UN resolutions and the aspirations of the Kashmiri people. The United Nations and international community must take notice of Indian atrocities in Occupied Kashmir and take cognizance of the plight of innocent Kashmiris.
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