GENEVA, MILLAT+(APP): Pakistan on Wednesday welcomed
remarks by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights regarding
the use of excessive force by Indian authorities against the
civilian population in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK).
Responding to the statement made by the UN High
Commissioner on Human Rights, Permanent Representative of
Pakistan to the United Nations Ambassador Tehmina Janjua
said that Pakistan supported the position of the High
Commissioner that a team of OHCHR (Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights) should visit
the IOK to independently and impartially investigate the
grave violations being perpetrated by Indian occupation
forces over the past two months.
The visit by the team would help address the culture of
impunity which is prevailing in there, she added.
She reminded the Human Rights Council that Jammu and
Kashmir was an international issue recognized as such by a
number of United Nationas Security Council (UNSC)
resolutions.
Despite the broad-based indigenous nature of the latest
uprising which started with extra-judicial killing of 22-year
old Burhan Muzaffar Wani, for whose funeral 200,000 people
came out, India continues to cast aspersions on its indigenous
nature, she said, adding, but this was hardly surprising as it
was the characteristic of oppressive regimes to label those
struggling for their rights as terrorists.
Ambassador Tehmina Janjua added that claims of restraint
shown by India are preposterous.
In just six weeks, if this restraint has resulted in 90
deaths, 800 injured, with 160 being blinded due to deliberate
targeting of civilians, then this is a definition of restraint
which is unique to India only, she remarked.
Also Indian obduracy is disallowing outside observers to
OIK is testimony to the fact that the Indian government wishes
to hide atrocities unleashed against the Kashmiri people, she
added.