ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has slammed New Delhi over extra-judicial killing of Kashmiris in “fake encounters” and the imposition of restriction on religious gathering and processions in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
Indian occupation forces sealed off parts of IIOJK’s main city Srinagar to stop mourners from staging processions during the month of Muharram killed four youths and detained at least 50 attendees.
The Foreign Office spokesman, Zahid Hafeez Chaudri said in a statement on Saturday, “Pakistan strongly condemns extra-judicial killing of four more Kashmiris in a staged encounter in the Shopian region of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).”
“Equally condemnable are the restrictions imposed on religious processions and gatherings during Muharram,” it added.
Nearly three hundred innocent Kashmiris, including women and children, have been martyred by the Indian occupation forces in fake encounters, so-called “cordon and search” operations, and other instances of the use of brutal force including pellet guns during the last one year, read the communique.
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“India’s inhuman methods to subjugate the Kashmiri people through killings, torture, forced disappearances and incarcerations have failed in the past and will not succeed in the future.”
The long communications blockade and Indian attempts to muzzle the media, including targeted campaigns against Kashmiri male and female journalists, are a further illustration of how the brutalization of Kashmiris continues to accentuate under the RSS-BJP regime, the FO added.
The perpetuation of India’s state-terrorism cannot break the will of the Kashmiris or quell their efforts to secure their inalienable right to self-determination as enshrined in the relevant United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions.
The statement demanded the international community to hold India accountable for its serious crimes against the Kashmiri people. “India must be made to comply with its international legal obligations and respect the fundamental rights of the Kashmiri people, including the foremost right to life.”
It is also the collective responsibility of the world community, including the United Nations, to work for peaceful and permanent resolution of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute in accordance with the relevant Security Council Resolutions and the wishes of the Kashmiri people for durable peace and stability in South Asia, the statement said.
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