ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has urged the world to take note of Indian government’s mistreatment of political prisoners in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJ&K).
In a tweet, the prime minister said conviction of prominent Kashmiri leader Yasin Malik on fake terrorism charges is futile effort to silence voices critical of India’s blatant human rights abuses. He said Modi regime must be held to account.
The prime minster has strongly condemned Indian government for its act of involving prominent Hurriyat leader Muhammad Yasin Malik in a fake terrorism case. He rejected Indian tactics against Yasin Malik, who he said is a symbol of unparalleled bravery and freedom.
PM Shehbaz pledged that the government of Pakistan will raise the issue of revengeful acts against Yasin Malik and other Kashmiri leadership at all international human rights forums and the OIC. He said India has been pursuing a deliberate plan to remove the real Kashmiri leadership from the scene.
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UN urged to intervene
Earlier, senior Hurriyat leader Mushaal Hussein Mullick demanded the United Nations intervene and stop the fascist Narendra Mod-led Indian government from convicting Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Yasin Malik in fabricated and fictitious cases.
Speaking at a press conference along with former Deputy Speaker Faisal Karim Kundi on Sunday, Mushaal said that the international community, UN bodies, and human rights organizations should wake up from their deep slumber as brutal Indian authorities were all-set to convict her husband in fake cases on May 25.
She said that Yasin was constantly physically and mentally tortured in the notorious Tihar prison, where he suffered from a brain hemorrhage.
She revealed that Indian brutal authorities have crossed the limits of barbarism and fascism as he was even not allowed to speak what to talk of a free trial.
Mushaal went on to say that the senior Hurriyat leader was kept in solitary confinement as even his family members were not allowed to meet him.
She stated that Yasin was suffering from several diseases but he has been deprived of much-needed life-saving drugs due to which his health deteriorated that even it was difficult to recognize him in the video. “Even international basic rights guaranteed for prisoners are not also given to Yasin Malik,” she said.
Yasin’s spouse also demanded of the Pakistani government to declare the Kashmiri freedom fighter a prisoner of consciousness and led a global campaign against Malik’s conviction in fabricated cases by the Indian courts.
“I request the government of Pakistan to give me and my daughter access to Yasin Malik, to talk to them, and to launch a global campaign to get him out (from the Indian custody),” she added.
Mushaal said her husband in Tihar Jail was not being provided counsellor access and the right to a fair and transparent trial for his defense. “We are deprived of our due rights and my daughter has not listened to her father during the last eight years,” she said.
She said that denying Yasin the right to a transparent and free trial, was an open violation of international law and human rights but the world at large observed criminal silence in this regard.
She urged that the international community should take notice of India’s blatant violations of international law and human rights protocols against Yasin and he should be declared a protected personality.
