By Our Diplomatic Correspondent
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has strongly condemned the extra-judicial killing of a 17 year old innocent Kashmiri by the occupation forces in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir. In a statement, Foreign Office spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri said the extra-judicial killings, torture in custody, enforced disappearances and incarcerations have become a norm in IIOJK to suppress the Kashmiris. Reportedly, the teenage cricketer Zakir Bashir was brutally tortured by the Indian occupation forces before being shot dead. The spokesperson said, during this year alone, the Indian occupation forces have extra-judicially killed 57 innocent Kashmiris; arbitrarily detained and arrested 350 Kashmiris; and destroyed 58 houses of the Kashmiri people. He urged the international community to fulfill its obligation of protecting defenceless Kashmiris against the egregious human rights violations in IIOJK and hold India accountable for its serious crimes against humanity.
Meanwhile, in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), Indian troops in their fresh act of state terrorism martyred five Kashmiri youth in Pulwama district. The troops martyred the youth during a violent cordon and search operation in Rajpora area of the district.
Earlier, two Indian soldiers were killed in an attack in the same area. According to a report released by the Kashmir Media Service, the killing spree unleashed by Narendra Modi-led fascist Indian regime continues unabated in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The report said that 16 innocent Kashmiris were shot dead by Indian troops in the just concluding month of June while 68 people fell to Indian bullets in the first six months of the current year in IIOJK. The report pointed out that 95,806 Kashmiris were killed by troops from Jan 1989 till June 2021 in the occupied territory.
The report said that one more innocent Kashmiri youth fell to the bullets of Indian troops in Rajpora area of Pulwama district, Friday. It added that the troops have martyred nine innocent Kashmiris in different areas of the occupied territory in the last one week alone.
It maintained killing spree and other Indian brutal acts in IIOJK are aimed at suppressing the Kashmiri people’s resistance but they are determined not to submit to Indian barbarism, come what may. The report said, the tyrant India is bound to taste defeat in IIOJK and the Kashmiris are destined to win freedom from Indian yoke.
