Srinagar
In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) has hailed the British parliamentarians for expressing alarm over human rights violations including fake encounters by Indian troops in the territory. According to Kashmir Media Service, as many as 28 members of UK Parliament have written a joint letter to the Indian High Commission in Lon-don, seeking its response to reports of flagrant abuses of human rights in the occupied territory. They called for a transparent, credible and inde-pendent investigation into the human rights viola-tion cases in IIOJK, pointing to Hyderpora and Am-shipora fake encounters in which four and three Kashmiri civilians were martyred by Indian troops in Nov 2021 and July 2020 respectively. The law-makers also expressed shock at the incarceration of prominent rights activist Khurram Pervez by Indian troops and sought an explanation for his detention.
The APHC spokesman in a statement issued in Srinagar urged the British government to impress upon India to stop genocide, extrajudicial killings, illegal detentions and widespread human rights abuses in the occupied territory.
He said, the British government has a amoral obligation to intervene in Kashmir dispute, keeping in view the political legacy it had in India at the time of historical division of India wherein Kashmir remained a disputed territory in brazen violation of Indian Independence Act of 1947,endorsed by the British Kingdom. The spokesman expressed hope that the British parliament, in the light of the reporting of the hu-man rights abuses in IIOJK by a group of parlia-mentarians shall approach the European Union and the members of the United Nations to take appropri-ate measures to ensure right to self-determination, civil liberty, right to live, freedom of expression and all other fundamental rights, including social, reli-gious and political rights.
