Altaf Hamid Rao Mirpur (AJK)
Central Deputy Secretary General of Pakistan Tehreek – e – Insaf (Welfare Wing) and illustrious Kashmiri rights activist and Basharat Saleem here on Friday strongly denounced India for continual and increased human rights violations by its occupational forces in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (IIOJK) besides the extra judicial killings of Kashmiri youth during siege and search operations by the Indian brutal forces in Kashmir.
Talking to reporters here he said “peace and freedom loving International community, besides the world forums, especially the United Nations, must take immediate notice of the increased aggressive posture of New Delhi in the region”, the Kashmiri peace and rights activists urged.
“The frequent violation of human rights abuses in internationally-acknowledged dispute Jammu Kashmir State is reflective of the aggressive posture of India in the internationally-acknowledged disputed Jammu and Kashmir to divert the attention of the world from the agony the innocent people of the IIOJK who are suffering at the hands of the Indian brutal forces for their struggle for liberation of their motherland from India’s forced and illegal rule’’, Basharat said
To a question, Basharat Saleem acknowledging the pivotal role of the British MPs in raising the profile of the Kashmir issue said that they constitute the nucleus of the parliamentary activity in the United Kingdom.
The PTI leader pointed out that the cross-party All Party’s Parliamentary Group on Jammu and Kashmir (APPKG) – consisting of 76 MPs from all British parties – have helped galvanize support and public opinion for the just cause of Kashmir.
Parliamentary caucuses like the Labour’s and Conservative’s Friends of Kashmir are striving for the rights of the Kashmiris and demanding an end to genocide in the Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, he added.
Referring to the fast deteriorating situation in IIOJK following the increased Indian oppression to suppress Kaahmiris struggle for freedom Basharat said that massacres, killings, blinding, maiming, forced disappearances, fake encounters and molestation of women are common occurrences.
