Showing solidarity: Minority groups protest against genocide in Kashmir

Say international human rights organisations had become silent spectators

PESHAWAR: Minority groups in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa condemned the genocide in held Kashmir. A large number of people held a protest outside Peshawar Press Club on Saturday against the ongoing brutality and massacre orchestrated by the Indian forces in the valley.

The protesters held banners and placards inscribed with anti-Indian forces slogans.

While addressing the journalists, they said innocent people were killed in Kashmir by Indian forces.

The protesters added the Indian government had crossed the limits of barbarism which unveiled its true face. They maintained that a resolution had been unanimously passed in United Nations whereby India was bound to hold a plebiscite as per the wishes of Kashmir’s people.

However, India has been violating the resolution for the last several decades.

The protesters lamented that international human rights organisations had become silent spectators on the Kashmir dispute and were least bothered to come forward to provide a mutual solution to the conflict.

Minority representatives said they were prepared to sacrifice their lives and would not sit silent till the people of Kashmir obtain their rights. They said all minority communities living in Pakistan had united on one platform.

On the occasion, they appealed to international human rights organisations to take concrete measures to resolve the Kashmir dispute.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 17^th, 2016.