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Pakistan briefs UN on rights violations in Held Kashmir
Former interior minister and Senate’s Standing Committee on Interior Chairman Senator Rehman Malik on Wednesday informed Ambassador Vojislav Šuc, the president of United Nations Human Rights Council, about Indian forces brutalities against innocent people of Indian-held Kashmir (IHK). Senator Malik met the UN Human Rights Council president at his office in Geneva and told the […]
Former interior minister and Senate’s Standing Committee on Interior Chairman Senator Rehman Malik on Wednesday informed Ambassador Vojislav Šuc, the president of United Nations Human Rights Council, about Indian forces brutalities against innocent people of Indian-held Kashmir (IHK).
Senator Malik met the UN Human Rights Council president at his office in Geneva and told the former that Indian forces were committing unprecedented brutalities against innocent Kashmiris in terms of mass murders, mass blinding, enforced disappearances, torture, rape, political repression and suppression of freedom of speech.
He further said that the Indian government was violating the global treaties by not allowing human rights bodies to access Kashmir while it was the responsibility of OHCHR to send its delegation to witness rights violations in Held Kashmir.
Malik said that the Indian government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi had increased the number of troops in Kashmir to over 700,000 to inflict violence to peace-loving Kashmiris, who were struggling for their right to self-determination as per the UN resolutions.
He said India was unleashing ethnic cleansing of Muslim majority in Kashmir.
The senator urged the council’s head to urgently appoint a high-powered commission to investigate unprecedented human rights violations by Indian forces in Kashmir.
Ambassador Vojislav Šuc assured Malik that his office would take all necessary steps in this regard.
The recent attack of BLA on Chinese consulate in Karachi also came under discussion wherein Malik told the UN Human Rights Council chief that India was supporting and financing the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) – a terrorist organization involved in terrorism in Pakistan.
Malik demanded implementation of earlier UNSC resolution on Kashmir, saying that the UN must imposed sanctions on India until Kashmiris were not allowed to exercise their right to self-determination
Pakistan Ambassador to United Nations Farrukh Amir also accompanied the senator in his meeting with Ambassador Vojislav Šuc. Malik is leading the Pakistan Parliamentary Delegation in World E-Parliament Conference 2018 in Geneva, which is being organised by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).
Published in Daily Times, December 6th 2018.
