Public role to help alleviate human sufferings sought
Staff Reporter
Islamabad
The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan welcoming the letter of the European Parliament’s global human rights subcommittee to the Indian government about massive human rights violations described the move as a charge sheet against the Indian Home Minister Amit Shah. ‘The Indian government is brazenly using anti-terrorism law, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) to curb the civil liberties and intimidate the human rights defenders within India and in Occupied Jammu and Kashmir,’ he added.
Commenting on the letter written by the sub committee’s chairperson Maria Arena to the Indian home minister, he said that the arrest of two human rights activists Gautam Navlakha and Anand Teltumbde, under the UAPA, is proof that the Modi regime considers human rights activists as terrorists. He said that this act of the Indian government is itself state terrorism and negates the human rights guaranteed under the constitution of India.
‘It has been a routine of successive Indian governments to violate human rights particularly in occupied Kashmir and covered their crimes under the garb of so-called democracy and secularism, but now India’s ugly face stand exposed, he added. Maria Arena, chairwoman of the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights had expressed serious concerns over violations of human rights in India, and said that it is alarming and condemnable that those raising their voice for the rights of the most marginalized communities, and protesting against the new citizenship laws of India, are being portrayed as terrorists.
Meanwhile, the AJK president while strongly condemning the Indian mortar and heavy weapons shelling in Mohra, Dharoti, and Nara sub-sectors of the Line of Control in Kotli district has described it an intentional attempt of India to divert the attention of the international community from the situation of occupied Jammu and Kashmir as well as the internal situation of India itself.
Earlier addressing an event organized by BTM Global to distribute food package among the migrated afectees of Surgan -Neelum valley at Kashmir Colony Chakri Road Rawalpindi, Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Sardar Masood Khan acknowledged the social services of BTM Global and its dedicated team, has said that serving the suffering humanity is the greatest virtue. He especially appreciated the BTM Global Chairperson Sumaira Farrukh for extending generous help to the people of Azad Kashmir and urged the participants to play their for alleviating the human sufferings. Terming Covid 19 as a dangerous and fatal pandemic, the president urged the people to take precautionary measures for containing the diseases from further spread.
