ISLAMABAD: Pakistan handed over dossier to International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to set up an international humanitarian medical corridor to provide medical assistance to the people of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
The dossier was presented by Chairman Kashmir Committee Shehryar Khan Afridi to the Head of delegation ICRC Dragana Kojak in Islamabad.
The dossier also contained a detailed report on the medical emergency arising after coronavirus outbreak in IIOJK.
Kojak assured Afridi to take up this issue with Indian authorities for establishing an international medical cooridor as per the resolution of Kashmir Committee. She said the ICRC would continue its efforts to help Kashmiris in every possible way
Meanwhile, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Munir Akram in a letter to the Secretary General Antonio Guterres conveyed deep concern on the recent demise of a senior Kashmiri political leader Ashraf Sehrai in Indian custody.
In a series of tweets, Munir Akram said being a leading political figure from Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Ashraf Sehrai spent his life struggling for the legitimate right of self-determination of Kashmiris and suffered persecution at the hands of Indian occupying forces.
He said in view of the prevailing COVID-19 crises in India and deteriorating humanitarian situation in the region, Pakistan urges the United Nations to ask the Government of India to immediately release all detained prisoners.
