Staff Reporter
Islamabad
As part of Pakistan’s consistent political and diplomatic efforts, the country has approached the United Nations over Delhi’s blatant attempt to turn the Muslim-majority in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir into a minority.
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has written letters to the UN Security Council president and the UN Secretary General, apprising them of the latest situation in the occupied valley particularly the recent changes brought by the Modi government in domicile laws that would pave the way for non-Kashmiris to acquire permanent residence there.
The Foreign Office, in a statement issued on Saturday, said letters, dispatched on May 21, were part of ongoing efforts by Pakistan to keep the world body abreast of the current situation in the disputed region.
The foreign minister, as per the official handout, drew attention towards the newly-notified “Jammu & Kashmir Reorganisation Order 2020” and “Jammu & Kashmir Grant of Domicile Certificate Rules 2020” aimed at changing the demographic structure of IOJ&K.
“It has been underscored that these actions are illegal and in violation of the UN Security Council Resolutions and international law, in particular the 4th Geneva Convention,” the statement read.
Qureshi highlighted India’s opportunistic exploitation of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic to further intensify its military crackdown in IOJ&K.
While conveying serious concerns over India’s state-terrorism in the valley, the foreign minister rejected Delhi’s efforts to undermine the indigenous struggle of the Kashmiri people against illegal Indian occupation and brutalisation of Kashmiris by terming it as “terrorism.”
