Pakistan reiterates demand for independent probe into IoK rights violations

Pakistan has reiterated its call for an independent investigation into human rights abuses in the Indian-held Kashmir.

Speaking at the UN General Assembly, Pakistan’s Representative to the United Nations Maleeha Lodhi said the world must play a role to put an end to the atrocities and enable a peaceful resolution of the Kashmir dispute.

I told the General Assembly today that UN is obliged to play a role to end human rights abuses & facilitate peaceful settlement of Kashmir

— Maleeha Lodhi (@LodhiMaleeha) October 5, 2016

Lodhi called for a free and fair plebiscite under UN patronage to resolve the Kashmir issue. She welcomed the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights demand for access to Occupied Kashmir.



Further, she appealed for moral and political support from the global community for the Kashmiri people and their legitimate right to self-determination.

Lodhi assured the world of Pakistan’s long-established and resolute commitment to UN peacekeeping which was acknowledged by everyone.



Earlier, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in September handed over a dossier detailing atrocities in Indian-held Kashmir to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in New York.

The premier showed Ban images of Indian military victimising  the unarmed and defenceless people of Kashmir using brute force. Apprising the UN chief about the gross rights violations, Sharif said over one hundred people had been killed and a thousand injured over the last 74 days in the region.