Srinagar/Islamabad April 2 (TNS): Pakistan on Monday announced to take the Kashmir issue again to the international fora to highlight the latest brutalities wreaked by the Indian forces on the innocent people in the occupied valley.
The announcement comes after the Indian forces killed 17 Kashmiri youth during the latest so-called search operations in Shopian and Anantnag in Indian occupied Kashmir.
Meanwhile, the Azad Jammu and Kashmir government has announced to observe a ‘Condemnation Day’ on Monday against the killing of innocent Kashmiris by the Indian troops.
AJK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan has appealed to the Kashmiris around the globe to observe the day to express solidarity with the victims of Indian brutalities, who were being persecuted.
Strongly condemning the bloodshed in occupied Kashmir, AJK President Masood Khan urged the international community to take notice of India’s atrocities and barbarism on innocent Kashmiris. He said India would not succeed in its nefarious designs to suppress the Kashmiris by the use of brutal force.
Meanwhile, Pakistan condemned the brutal and indiscriminate use of force by the Indian forces against the innocent Kashmiris.
“There are also reports of continuing brutal crackdown, especially the use of pellet guns on protestors, including youth and children and the suspension of internet services, in an attempt to subjugate and further repress the innocent Kashmiris,” said the Foreign Office spokesperson in a statement.
“This mindless killing spree exposes, yet again, the ugly, inhuman face of the state-terrorism that India has been perpetrating against the Kashmiris for decades. We have repeatedly pointed out that the Kashmiri youth is being deliberately and systematically targeted with a view to breaking the will of the Kashmiri people. However, such cowardly actions of the occupying forces only serve to fortify the resolve of the Kashmiri people,” he said.
The brave and resilient people of the Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir have demonstrated, again and again, that no amount of repression including incarcerations, torture and extrajudicial killings could deter them from pursuing the inalienable right to self-determination. Nor could any amount of Indian propaganda to paint the legitimate and indigenous Kashmiri struggle as “terrorism” succeed in misleading the world, the statement said.
“Pakistan expresses its full solidarity with the people of Jammu and Kashmir. We urge the international community to take cognizance of the gross and systematic violations of fundamental human rights, including the most basic human right to life, taking place in IoK and use its influence with India to bring an end to the shameful culture of impunity that has been fostered there for several decades. Pakistan also calls upon the world community to play its rightful role in promoting a just and lasting solution of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with relevant UN Security Council resolutions and the wishes of the Kashmiri people,” the statement added.
Meanwhile, All Parties Hurriyet Conference leaders Syed Ali Gilani and Mirwaiz Omar Farooq said that the silence of the world community over the bloodshed and human rights violations in occupied Kashmir was deplorable.
