Pakistan Exposes Indian Atrocities in IIOJK Before UN Session
The reason to compile 131-page dossier was due to the actions of the Indian government following the death of Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani
Pakistan has released a 131-page dossier on the human rights violations in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
In this regard, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, National Security Advisor (NSA) Moeed Yusuf, and Human Rights Minister Shireen Mazari held a press conference on Sunday.
The dossier has been released a couple of days before the meeting on United Nations (UN) General Assembly meeting starting on September 14.
Pakistan has decided to share a 131-page dossier with the international community to unveil the real face of the Modi-led government to the world.
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The reason to compile the dossier was due to the actions of the Indian government following the death of Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani.
It contains reports of 32 human rights watchdogs to ensure partiality along with concrete proofs of extrajudicial killings of Kashmiris.
Read the complete document here
The foreign minister has called for the international community to play its required role in the cessation of violence and oppression in the occupied valley and to compel India to allow independent investigators to examine the status of human rights there.
Qureshi has demanded the United Nations (UN) and other members of the global community impose sanctions on the Indian military brass and troops involved in gross violations of human rights and war crimes in IIOJK.
The document states that the human rights violations in the occupied valley have reached a new apex during the reign of Narendra Modi.
It also reports over 96,000 extra-judicial killings, around 162,000 cases of arbitrary arrests and torture and over 25,000 pellet gun injuries since 1989.
The dossier says 11,250 women were raped, around 23,000 were widowed while over 108,000 children were orphaned and it also provides details of 8,652 mass graves in 89 villages of IIOJK.
It also notes the use of banned cluster munition by India along the Line of Control (LoC).
