GENEVA, (APP): Pakistan has raised questions over
India’s human rights violations in Occupied Jammu and Kashmir and
has asked the international community to support the Kashmiris.
At the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in a right of reply, the
Pakistani delegate Wednesday rejected the patently absurd comments
by the Indian Representative on the situation of Indian Occupied
Jammu and Kashmir, said a press release issued here by Pakistan
mission in Geneva.
The Pakistani delegate mentioned that India insulted the
intelligence of Human Rights Council with the usual twisting of
historical facts, obfuscation of its repressive role, and outright
denial of well-documented violation of human rights in the valley.
The Pakistani delegate asked India to respond for the
Council’s information, on questions including:
-Can India deny that the situation in Kashmir is an internationally
recognized dispute on which there are number of UN resolutions?
-Can India deny that the UN has expressly called for the holding of
an impartial plebiscite to ascertain the wishes of the Kashmiri
people?
-Can India deny there are over 700,000 military and para-military
forces deployed in IOK which amounts to a shocking ratio of
1 military person to 70 civilians?
-Can India deny that since 1989 around 98000 civilians have been
killed in IOK and that there are well document reports of mass
graves?
-Can India deny that in the most recent upsurge of violence since 8
July, 90 Kashmiris have lost their lives, 8000 injured and 160
blinded?
-Can India deny that the entire valley of Kashmir is under curfew
since past two months?
In Pakistan’s second right of reply, the Indian delegate was
again challenged on account of his inability to own up to the
incontrovertible fact that the terrible situation in Indian Occupied
Kashmir flows from the nature of the Indian occupation and their
unceasing oppression of the Kashmir people.
Even in their own parliament, individuals have accepted that
Indian policies were at the root of the misery of Kashmiris, the
press release mentioned.