GENEVA: UN’s High Commissioner on Human Rights has been recently asked by Pakistan to intervention in Indian-held Kashmir to ensure that Kashmiri civilians enjoy a right to life in addition to putting an end to the atrocities of Indian Occupation forces and undertaking an impartial inquiry on firing pellets on peaceful protestors.
Ambassador Tehmina Janjua, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to United Nations in Geneva, said this while addressing a gathering to express solidarity with the Kashmiris and also noted that a letter authored by Sartaj Aziz, Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs, in this regard had also been handed over to the High Commissioner on Human Rights. Ambassador Janjua said that the given letter was a formal demarche from Pakistan, urging the High Commissioner to investigate the human rights violations in IHK.
Aziz has also called upon India to implement its international obligations, both in accordance with human rights and the agreed-upon UNSC resolution, relating to Jammu and Kashmir.
She further added that Pakistan has also repeatedly sought the intervention of the International Committee of Red Cross to deal with the humanitarian issue of the provision of medical care as well as putting an end to attacks against ambulances and hospitals by Indian security forces in the Occupied Kashmir. In her address at a gathering organised to observe “Black Day” as a condemnation of the ongoing brutal atrocities against innocent Kashmiri people at the hands of Indian forces, she lashed out against the inhumanities being inflicted by the Indian Occupation Forces on the innocent Kashmiri people. She also lambasted against the pellet attacks on young civilians, which had targeted their eyes and upper torsos. “The weapons used by the Indian security forces have blinded and caused eye injuries to more than 70 Kashmiri youth and children as well as peaceful demonstrators,” she noted.
The current violence being engineered against Kashmiris had already claimed more than 50 casualties while injuring another 3500, the Ambassador stated while expressing her solidarity with the Kashmiri struggle to enjoy their due right to self-determination. “In the wake of the current indigenous response to the repressive Indian occupation policies, it has become essential for the international community to urgently end the brutalities being meted out to the Kashmiri people and to seriously address this long-standing issue,” she added.
