Islamabad, December 26, 2021 (PPI-OT):Pakistan has strongly condemned extra-judicial killings of five more Kashmiris by Indian forces in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). The Foreign Office Spokesperson in a statement in Islamabad deplored that the Indian forces martyred five more Kashmiri youth in IIOJK in the last three days in fake encounters and so-called cordon and search-operations.

He said, a 19-year-old student was martyred, today, by Indian forces with impunity in Islamabad, IIOJK. At least 18 Kashmiris have been martyred by Indian troops in the current month of December so far, he added. The Spokesperson said that the Indian army had intensified arbitrary detentions, night raids, coercion, harassment and humiliation of Kashmiris, and the extra-judicial killings in staged encounters and CASOs continued unabated. Burial of the last remains of martyrs at unknown locations since April last year, without the consent and presence of their families, is yet another abhorrent manifestation of the callous behaviour and moral bankruptcy of BJP-RSS combine, he added.

India should be well aware that no amount of oppression and use of force can break the will of the valiant Kashmiri people, who are resolutely standing up against India’s state-terrorism in IIOJK and struggling for their inalienable right to self-determination as enshrined in the relevant UN Security Council resolutions.

He urged the international community to hold India accountable for its grave and systematic violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in IIOJK, which must be investigated by an independent Commission of Inquiry as recommended by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in its reports of 2018 and 2019, the statement added.

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