-Says Indian Forces targeting Kashmiri youths by painting them as terrorists
By Asghar Ali Mubarak
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Monday said Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) was undergoing worst form of state-terrorism as occupation forces targeted the unarmed Kashmiri youth in fake encounters.
The Foreign Minister said Indian occupation forces were spreading fear among innocent residents of IIOJK by naming them as “terrorists”.
“In order to throw dust in the eyes of the world, these victims are presented as terrorists and false cases registered against them,” he said, in a statement issued by his media cell. Qureshi said now the world had realized India’s ill intentions, which was resulting in weakening of India’s control on the occupied valley.
Days before, Qureshi said that India was conspiring to destabilize Pakistan as the government has solid evidences of Indian involvement in patronizing terrorists and other banned organizations in order to create unrest in Pakistan. He expressed these views while addressing a ceremony at Union Council Multaniwala, here on Sunday.
On November 14, during a joint Press Conference with Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), the government informed the international community about involvement of India in terror activities by sharing dossier. India wanted to destabilize Pakistan, Qureshi said and adding that , however, It (India) will remain failed in its nefarious designs. Foreign Minister said that India had earmarked billions of rupees to damage China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Similarly, FM added that India was also sabotaging peace process in Afghanistan.
“Disinfo Lab had exposed India’s conspiracies also. Due to inhuman measures by Modi government, the voices are also being heard against the fascist regime from inside India. Instead of addressing local issues, the Indian government was bent on hatching conspiracy against Pakistan. India’s nefarious designs could create law and order situation in the region and the consequence would be disastrous,” he said. Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that Pakistan was taking practical as well as diplomatic steps to foil conspiracies of the enemy. Armed Forces were successfully abolishing the menace of the terrorism.
Similarly, the whole nation was standing behind the armed forces to protect country’s sovereignty. He, however urged upon leadership of opposition parties to demonstrate responsibility and ignore personal agenda and forged unity against foreign aggression.
Qureshi said that PDM had nothing to do with masses. In past, those who ( Both PPP and PML N) claimed to drag each other on roads of Lahore and Larkana, are now becoming guests of each other, said Qureshi adding that it had exposed the real face of the both parties.
Qureshi hinted that PDM lacked unity into its ranks. He, however, posed question why did Fazal ur Rehman not participate in Larkana public meeting. When will PDM extend resignation, Qureshi said adding, is PDM waiting for Senate Elections or it has any sympathy with masses ?
Qureshi categorically stated that PDM coalition was about to collapse. Coalitions made after personal interests would not last longer. The both, PPP and PML N, joined hands to save looted money only. The worst opponents of the philosophy of Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Shaheed Mohtarma Bhutto are, now guests at Larkana.
Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi also apprised masses that funds to tune of millions of rupees were being spent in NA 157. He recalled that he was in contact with the people of the union council since 1977. On this occasion, MPA Malik Wasif Raan, Chairman Market Committee Malik Akram Chawan and other local leaders were also present. Earlier, Indian police have accused an army officer and two associates of planting weapons on the bodies of three laborers killed in Kashmir to make it look as though they were armed fighters in a staged gun battle.
Their July deaths sparked a furor in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Captain Bhoopendra Singh has been charged with murder, conspiracy and other offences, the police statement said. He is now in military detention. The two civilian “sources”, who were with him at the time, are in police custody, Al Jazeera said in its report on Monday. A police statement issued late on Sunday said the officer and two others “planted illegally acquired weapons and material on their dead bodies after stripping them of their identities and tagged them as hardcore terrorists in possession of war-like stores.”
From left Imtiyaz Ahmad, Ibrar Ahmad, Mohammad Ibrar, who were killed in the Shopian encounter. In September, the Indian army admitted its soldiers had exceeded powers under the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), which accords impunity to soldiers in the killing of the civilians.
The army had initially claimed that the three men were killed in a gun battle in the village of Amshipora in south Kashmir and that three weapons were found on them. The bodies were hurriedly buried in a remote border area. The men’s families in the remote mountainous area of Rajouri identified them one month later from photographs that circulated on social media. The families said the three had only been looking for work in Kashmir’s apple orchards.Javaid Ahmad, 25, whose younger brother, Ibrar Ahmad, was among the three people killed in the gun battle, said that the family has “lost peace and sleep in search of justice.”
“One of them was my brother and the other two were cousins. We don’t know whether we will get justice or not,” said Ahmad, who lives in Rajouri district of Jammu.–ISPR
