Islamabad, March 29, 2023 (PPI-OT): The All Parties Hurriyat Conference Azad Jammu and Kashmir (APHC-AJK) chapter has urged the international community to take immediate cognizance of the rapidly deteriorating human rights situation in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The APHC-AJK leaders, Sheikh Abdul Mateen, Sheikh Yaqub, Imtiaz Wani, Zahid Ashraf and Qazi Imran in their statements issued in Islamabad said that the people of IIOJK have been facing the worst Indian state terrorism for the last over seventy-four years. They said that India, which projects itself as the largest democracy of the world, has deprived the Kashmiris of their inalienable right to self-determination in clear disregard to the United Nations Charter.
The APHC-AJK leaders said that India’s continued refusal to give the Kashmiris their inalienable right has deprived them of the full benefits of a life of dignity and freedom. They said that instead of respecting the aspirations of the Kashmiri people, India is trying to suppress their legitimate freedom struggle through brutal military power. They deplored that more than one million Indian soldiers deployed in the occupied territory are killing, arresting, torturing and disappearing innocent people in custody and molesting the Kashmiri women to weaken the Kashmiris’ spirit for freedom.
The APHC-AJK leaders said since August 5, 2019, when Narendra Modi-led fascist Indian government revoked the special status of IIOJK, the Kashmiri people have been forced to live in an environment of constant suffocation. They pointed out that Kashmir is the only place in the world where people have been deprived of all their basic rights. They urged the international community to take immediate cognizance of the Indian state terrorism in IIOJK and put pressure on India to resolve the Kashmir dispute as per the aspirations of the Kashmiris to ensure lasting peace in the region.
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