LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) MNA Maiza Hameed has strongly condemned continuous violation of human rights in Indian-held Jammu Kashmir and assured that the government would forcefully raise the issue at all international forums.
Talking to Daily Times on Saturday, she lamented that the Indian forces were adding new chapters of brutality that was not tolerable at all, while the Kashmir issue should be resolved according to the wishes of Kashmiri people. She urged the international community not to play the role of a silent spectator on the issue, as violation of human rights in Kashmir by India was creating unrest in the region.
“Brutal killing of innocent people in Kashmir is not acceptable to Pakistan and it is standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Kashmiri brethren. Pakistan will continue to extend its moral support for realisation of the right to self-determination of the people of Jammu Kashmir,” she added.
Maiza said that the United Nations should take notice of the Indian aggression and intervene in the matter, as any irresponsibility by the Indian side could give birth to a historic human tragedy. She opined that the use of force against innocent civilians protesting peacefully over extra-judicial killings was a blatant violation of the right to life, right to freedom of expression and opinion, right to peaceful protest, right to peaceful assembly and other rights.
“India can no longer be in denial of these facts by terming the situation as its internal matter, a position that has no standing whatsoever, in view of the internationally recognised disputed status of Jammu Kashmir,” she asserted, adding that the Indian armed forces were trampling the fundamental freedoms of the Kashmiri people with complete impunity.
It is pertinent to mention that at least 34 people have been killed and 3,100 wounded, most of them in police firing, in the worst outbreak of violence in six years in the disputed territory. Pakistan strongly condemned Burhan Wani’s extra-judicial killing and has sought investigations into his and other civilians’ deaths in the disputed valley.
