ISLAMABAD: Pakistan urged international community especially permanent members of UN Security Council to help prevent humanitarian catastrophe in Indian Occupied Kashmir.
In his weekly news briefing in Islamabad Thursday, Foreign Office spokesperson Nafees Zakaria said the world should take urgent notice of genocide and crimes against humanity being committed by Indian forces in Occupied Kashmir.He said Indian state sponsored terrorism has led to shortage of medicines, food, water and basic amenities of life.
The spokesperson said so far 110 civilians have been killed and 1,500 injured by Indian forces. He also pointed out that entire leadership of APHC has been put behind bar and is being meted out inhuman treatment. He said Chairman Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Yaseen Malik is not being released despite having life threatening heart problem and women leader Aasia Andrabi has also been arrested.
Nafees Zakaria said plight of Kashmiris is gradually getting attention of the world community and many parliamentarians and human rights organizations are sensitizing their governments and public opinion about brutalities against Kashmiris.
He also referred to the just concluded visit of Belarus President and pointed out that Belarus has demanded peaceful resolution of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with UN resolutions.
Nafees Zakaria stressed Pakistan had not violated the Line of Control (LoC) and violations had always been carried out by India. All political parties were united on the issue of Kashmir, he added. —INP
