Masood condemns IOK killings

AJK president says India writing a dark chapter of human rights violations

MUZAFFARABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Sardar Masood Khan has strongly condemned killings at the hands of the Indian army in Tarral town of Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) on Sunday.

In a statement issued here, he said the Kashmir issue is a political and human issue which could only be solved through political means under the principles of justice and human values but India is trying to resolve this through military might.



“Martyrdom of six innocent people in Tarral town is another barbaric act of the Indian forces to oppress the voice of people for their just right to self-determination,” he said adding this genocide was a big hurdle in the way leading towards peaceful resolution of the conflict.

"The movement for right to self-determination has evolved through sacrificial blood of thousands of youths and it can not be crushed by the use of brutal force," said the AJK president.

While paying rich tribute to martyred youths, the president Khan said Indian atrocities had been pushing the young blood in the valley to the wall and forcing them to pick the gun to defendtheir lives and honour in retaliation.

He said the youths were being tortured by the occupant forces at police stations, they were being martyred in the different parts of the valley and they witness the torture on their friends and relatives which was boosting their anger against the occupant forces.

“Indian forces are not answerable before any institution which has further intensified  their atrocities day by day,” lamented the AJK president over global organisations’ inaction over inquiring about the human right violations from the Indian government.



He warned that India was authoring a black chapter in history by its barbaric acts in the Occupied Valley for which the country would account for in the future as these act cannot suppress the movement.

President Masood Khan also condemned Indian shelling on civilian population on Line of Control (LOC) and called upon the United Nations to send a commission of inquiry in IOK in compliance with the UN human rights commission report to assess the abuses being committed by Indian forces.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 24^th, 2018.