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Pakistan on Monday said that peace in South Asia is endangered unless Kashmir Issue is resolved.
Addressing 135th General Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly (IPU) in Switzerland on October 24, 2016, Pakistan National Assembly Speaker, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq said, “a basic truth bears repetition: Peace cannot prevail without addressing the discrimination and violence too often unleashed against people demanding their just and natural rights.”
“In our part of the world,” the Pakistan National Assembly Speaker said, “peace is imperilled by the violence unleashed against the people of Indian Occupied State of Jammu & Kashmir.”
“The people of Kashmir have been under general curfew. Since July this year, more than 150 people have been killed in cold blood by forces. The indiscriminate and reprehensible use of pellet guns on unarmed protestor has left over 800 blinded. And the people of Kashmir have been placed under a general curfew for more than a hundred day,” a statement issued by Pakistan Foreign Office said quoting Sadiq.
“The entire leadership of the Kashmiri people is incarcerated under inhumane conditions. A prominent Kashmiri leader, Mr Yasin Malik, is in a critical condition. The only crime of the Kashmiri is their just and consistent demand for their right to self-determination, which is enshrined in a number of the United Nations Security Council Resolutions. India remains in continued violation of these resolutions which unequivocally call for the holding a plebiscite under UN auspices to ascertain the wishes of the Kashmiri people,” he added.
The Pakistan National Assembly Speaker referred to the UN Human Rights Commissioner’s concern over the human rights situation in Kashmir.
He has twice called for sending a fact finding mission to Kashmir “only to be rebuffed by an intransigent Indian government”.
He also referred to the member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, OIC’s Independent Human Rights Commission and the Parliamentary Union of Islamic countries which condemned atrocities and called for sending a fact-finding mission to Kashmir. “Again, these calls have been wilfully ignored by India,” he said.
“The people in Kashmir look to this forum to help end the repression and violence that they continue to face. It is imperative that we do not fail them,” he told the Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly. “It is our duty as representatives of peoples to condemn gross human rights violations and agree upon tangible measures to urgently stop violations by the perpetrators. This holds specially true when powerful state authorities engage in violations of human rights and repress people demanding their fundamental rights, as is happening so tragically in Indian Occupied Kashmir.”
Meanwhile, Pakistan’s permanent representative to United Nations in Geneva, Tehmina Janjua told Radio Pakistan that International fora have been strongly condemned the atrocities in Kashmir.
“India failed to isolate Pakistan and United Nations High Commissioner Human Rights has issued strict statement against Indian violations in Kashmir and demanded to release the leaders of Kashmir movement detained by the India,” she added.
