ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has once again called for an independent inquiry under international scrutiny into the extra-judicial killings of three labourers in occupied Kashmir in July.
According to a statement issued today (Tuesday), FO spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudri said, “The revelations that weapons were planted on the bodies of the labourers martyred in IoK, to make it look as though they were armed fighters in a staged gun battle, are only a tip of the iceberg of Indian crimes against the Kashmiri people.”
Earlier on Saturday, the district police in IoK had charged a captain of the Indian army and his two accomplices for killing three local labourers and passing them off as militants.
The police informed that the captain had staged a gunfight on July 8 to make it appear like a clash with militants. A special investigation team had filed a 300-page charge sheet against the army officer.
In this regard, Zahid Hafeez Chaudri informed that the list of India’s crimes against the people of Kashmir was long. “More than 300 innocent Kashmiris, including women and children, have been martyred in fake ‘encounters’ during the last one year,” he added.
“Pakistan has been consistently drawing the international community’s attention towards extra-judicial killings of innocent Kashmiris by the Indian occupation forces to further perpetuate India’s illegal occupation of the region,” the statement said.
He further said, “Nothing short of an inquiry under international scrutiny will either meet the requirements of justice or be accepted by the Kashmiris people. No cover-up exercises can anymore hide India’s crimes and save it from international censure.”
“Pakistan reiterates its calls upon the international community to hold India accountable for its crimes against the Kashmiri people and work for the resolution of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute in accordance with the relevant UN Security Council resolutions,” the statement concluded.
