-FO condemns Indian extra judicial killings
MUZAFFARABAD: A sit-in protest was organized under the aegis of Pasban-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir and International Forum for Justice and Human Rights here on Thursday against Indian oppression, barbarism in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIoJK) and demand the United Nations (UN) for right to self-determination.
A large number of citizens participated in the anti-India protest sit-ins and the right to self-determination rally. The people in the protest were chanting slogans for freedom and anti-India including “Go Modi Go Back & Go India Go Back”.
Despite heavy rains, a large number of leaders of political and religious parties, women, elders, children and youth were present in the sit-in. Pasban-e-Hurriyat Chairman Uzair Ahmad Ghazali and other speakers on the occasion said that the state of Jammu and Kashmir was a unity whose future will be decided by the people of Jammu and Kashmir through referendum.
The speakers said that India has imposed war on the citizens living on the ceasefire line after the oppression in the occupied valley.
They lamented that Youths were being killed in IIoJK. The people were of the view that by eliminating the state subject, Jammu and Kashmir domiciles have been issued to 2.2 million Indian citizens in Kashmir.
“These cruel actions of India have posed a serious threat to the Muslim identity of the state.” they added.
The speakers said that a dark cloud was hovering over the unity, identity and future of the state. In these most difficult circumstances, the citizens of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) could not remain silent.
The people across the state would fight any kind of aggression by India.
The speakers called upon the UN to take steps to fulfill its promises made with the Kashmiri people.
The international human rights organizations Amnesty International and Asia Watch should also play a role in exposing India’s ongoing terrorist activities.
Meanwhile Pakistan strongly condemned the extra-judicial killing of four more innocent Kashmiris in a fake encounter outside the city of Jammu by the occupation forces in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
“Pakistan calls for immediate and transparent judicial inquiry, under international scrutiny, into the extra-judicial killings of innocent Kashmiris including these four”, Foreign Office said in a statement issued here.
The statement pointed out that in the last one year alone, Indian occupation forces had martyred more than three hundred (300) innocent Kashmiris, including women and children, in fake encounters and so-called “cordon and search” operations in complete violation of the fundamental precepts of international humanitarian law.
“The toxic ‘Hindutva’ ideology, preached and practiced by the RSS-BJP mix, has resulted in the systematic targeting of Kashmiri youth through extra-judicial killings, torture in custody, enforced disappearances and incarcerations under the cover of draconian laws such as Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), Public Safety Act (PSA) and Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA),” it added.
“We also urge the international community to take immediate cognizance of the rampant state terrorism being perpetrated in IIOJK and hold India accountable for its serious crimes against humanity,” the statement stressed.
India must eschew the use of state-terrorism as an instrument of state policy, end its egregious violations of human rights of the Kashmiri people, and take concrete steps towards the resolution of the Jammu & Kashmir dispute as per the Resolutions of the United Nations Security Council, it added.–Agencies
