PESHAWAR, Oct 22 (APP): Former Secretary Security erstwhile Fata, Brigadier (R) Mahmood Shah here Thursday said life has become a nightmare for innocent Kashmiris after abolishment of the special status of Indian Illegally Occupied Jummu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
“India has broken all records of atrocities, sexual violence and humans rights’ abuses in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) after abolishment of its special status on August 5, 2019 where life has become a nightmare especially for women and children”, he told APP.
He said Kashmiris of IIOJK have been faced with an unending ordeal of state terrorism, mental agony, and trauma due to frequent abductions, sexual violence and illegal detentions at the hands of Indian security forces under the pretext of cordons and search operations, adding that the cases of sexual violence against women increased after the revoking of the special status of Kashmir.
Talking to APP, the former secretary security for erstwhile Fata said Indian occupational forces are using sexual violence, rape and molestation against women and children as weapons of war and collective punishment in the occupied territory to suppress the legitimate right to freedom of the innocent Kashmiris.
“It is a sheer violation of international human rights laws and UN security council resolutions”, he observed.
He said the horrific acts of violence, mental torture, aggressions and ruthless brutalities against women and children had made life as nightmare for people in IIOJK. Since August 5 last year, he said, India imposed military siege on some 10 million Kashmiris in IIOJK and the suppressed Kashmiris were subjected to gross human rights violations at the hands of more than 700,000 Indian forces deployed in the heavily militarized held valley.
After abrogation of Article 370 by the Modi facist Government, the legal paradigms of IIOJK were completely changed and now any Indian national can purchase lands in IIOJK that would change the demography of the held valley and Kashmiris would become minorities in the future. He said the Kashmir dispute is the unfinished agenda of the subcontinent partition plan and has put the peace of the the entire region in jeopardy. He said there would be no durable peace and stability in South Asia until the Kashmir dispute is resolved as per wishes and aspirations of Kashmiris.
Brig (R) Mahmood Shah said India is using media as a propaganda tool to divert the attention of the international community from gross human rights violations and sexual violence against women besides the use of pellet guns in IIOJK. But, he added, all these negative tactics were badly exposed before the world after Indian forces laid the longest military siege and lockdown in the held valley since August 5 last year.
He demanded of the global community to investigate the grave human rights violations, extra judicial killings and use of pellet guns being perpetrated with complete impunity in IIOJK by Indian occupational forces. After the Modi Govt’s illegal move on August 5, 2019, Brigadier Mahmood Shah said Pakistan had exhibited great political and diplomatic acumen and succeeded to raise the issue at UN vigorously. He said the holding of the extraordinary meeting of the UN Security Council on IIOJK’s grim situation after decades is a great achievement of the Pakistani Government on the diplomatic front.
He said that Prime Minister Imran Khan had demonstrated great statesmanship by boldly highlighting the illegal actions and the ugly face of the Modi Govt at the UN General Assembly. He said PM Imran Khan’s speeches were a clear reminder to the world body to quickly implement its resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir issue which had been lingering for over seven decades, imperative for sustainable peace in South Asia.
Mahmood Shah said the Pakistani premier reminded the international community to play its due role in resolving the Kashmir dispute as per UN resolutions and Kashmiris’ aspirations. He said the UN was formed for the establishment of peace in the world after massive devastation during the first and second world wars and it was the responsibility of the UN to address the Kashmir dispute like it promptly resolved the East Timor issue in a peaceful manner.
He said the PMLN Government had kept Kashmir issue on the back-burner as the statements of the then former officers of Foreign Service of Pakistan explicitly reflected that the foreign policy on Kashmir was badly compromised during the Nawaz era.
Stay tuned to Baaghi TV for latest news and updates!
India extends ban on high speed internet in IIOJK
Weekly Press Briefing at the Foreign Office, Full Text
GB Needs to be Made a Provisional Constitutional Province: Rally Participants