Islamabad, June 21, 2022 (PPI-OT):Pakistan has strongly condemned the extra-judicial killing of four more Kashmiris in fresh acts of state terrorism by Indian occupational forces in Pulwama and Baramulla districts of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
The Foreign Office spokesperson in a statement today said, “Since India’s illegal and unilateral actions of 5 August 2019, more than 636 Kashmiris have embraced martyrdom in fake ‘encounters’ and so-called ‘cordon-and-search operations’. This year alone, 113 extra-judicial killings of Kashmiris have been recorded.”
He said the intensified military crackdown and the rising numbers of extra-judicial killings in IIOJK were part of the extremist anti-Muslim designs of the “Hindutva” inspired BJP-RSS combine in India. He said ironically, Kashmiri youth had been a specific target of the 900,000 strong Indian military occupation force stationed in IIOJK.
“India must realize that use of brutal force against the Kashmiri people, extra-judicial killings, custodial torture and deaths, forced disappearances, incarceration of Kashmiri leadership and youth and other methods of subjugation have failed in the past and will not succeed in the future,” the spokesperson remarked.
He said through a dossier unveiled last year, Pakistan had provided to the world, incontrovertible evidence of the gross and systemic oppression and human rights violations by the Indian occupation forces in IIOJK.
The spokesperson reiterated Pakistan’s call for investigation of extra-judicial killings in IIOJK by establishing an Independent Commission of Inquiry as recommended by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in its Kashmir reports of 2018 and 2019.
He also urged the international community to hold India accountable for its brazen suppression of innocent Kashmiris and play its due role in ensuring a just and peaceful resolution of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute in accordance with the relevant UN Security Council resolutions and the wishes of the Kashmiri people.
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