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ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has written a letter to the president of the UN Security Council and the UN secretary general to apprise them of India’s continuing gross and systematic violations of human rights in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
According to a statement issued by the Foreign Ministry, Shah Mahmood underscored that all unilateral and illegal measures taken by India in the occupied territory in violation of international law, such as changes in the demographic structure, usurpation of land and farcical “elections”, are null and void.
Drawing attention to India’s perpetration of terrorism and subversion against Pakistan, the Foreign Minister recalled the detailed dossier presented to the UN containing irrefutable evidence of India’s active planning, promoting, aiding, abetting, financing and execution of terrorist activities against Pakistan.
The Foreign Minister’s letter noted that the recent exposé of transcripts in the Indian media further establishes its orchestration of “false flag” operations and belligerent actions for domestic political and electoral gains.
The Foreign Minister has called upon the Security Council to urge India to:
(i) Immediately lift the continuing military siege and rescind the illegal and unilateral actions in IIOJK;
(ii) Remove restrictions on communications, movement and peaceful assembly;
(iii) Immediately release incarcerated Kashmiri political leaders and allow them to express the wishes of the Kashmiri people;
(iv) Free all arbitrarily and illegally detained Kashmiris;
(v) Freeze and reverse the new domicile rules and property laws designed to change the demographic structure of IIOJK;
(vi) Remove the draconian laws enabling Indian occupation forces to continue human rights violations with impunity, including extrajudicial killings in fake encounters
(vii) Allow access to the occupied territory to the UN observers, international human rights and humanitarian organizations, observers and the international media. Qureshi called upon the UNSC to urge India to agree to the following measures.
The Foreign Minister has further called upon the UN Security Council to exercise its legal and moral authority to secure the implementation of its resolutions on Jammu & Kashmir which guarantee the Kashmiris’ inalienable right to self-determination.