ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday condemned the extra-judicial killing of five Kashmiris, including a juvenile and a student in a so-called operation in the Shopian area of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
According to a statement issued by Foreign Office, “Extra-judicial killings of young men, including teenage boys, and refusal to return human remains of those martyred is completely unlawful and reflects the moral bankruptcy of the Indian Occupation forces.”
Pakistan has repeatedly called for independent investigations, under international scrutiny, into the extra-judicial killings of all innocent Kashmiris, FO said.
The spokesman called upon the international community to hold India accountable for the gross and systematic human rights violations in IIOJK and work for peaceful resolution of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute in accordance with the relevant UNSC resolutions and the wishes of the Kashmiri people.
The Indian forces in their continued state terrorism in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) martyred five more Kashmiri youth in the Bijbehara area.
Police said on Sunday that the back-to-back clashes began late on Saturday after troops cordoned off two villages in southern IoK’s Shopian and Bijbehara areas on intelligence that pro-independence Kashmiri fighters were hiding there.
Three youths were killed and two soldiers sustained injuries in Shopian, Inspector General Vijay Kumar said troops had recovered a rifle and a pistol from the site.
One of the slain youth was a teenage boy who, according to officials, had joined the ranks of pro-independence fighters a few days earlier. Kumar said several attempts were made to seek the trapped fighters’ surrender but they had refused.
Indian forces killed two more Kashmiri fighters in the second clash in Bijbehara, Kumar said. At least 15 fighters, a policeman and an army soldier have been killed so far this month.
Earlier, a report issued by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service stated thousands of women are among the 95,507 Kashmiris martyred by Indian forces since 1989.
