Pakistan strongly condemns killing of four more Kashmiris

Youth were martyred in Srinagar and Kupwara, IIOJK

ISLAMABAD:

Pakistan on Saturday strongly condemned the extra-judicial killing of four more Kashmiris by Indian occupation forces in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).

The youth were martyred in Srinagar and Kupwara in IIOJK.

“The Indian occupation forces martyred the youth during a staged cordon and search operations,” Foreign Office spokesperson Asim Iftikhar Ahmad said in a statement.

At least 210 Kashmiris were martyred in fake encounters or so-called cordon and search operations in 2021.

The FO spokesperson said that the military crackdown and intensified extra-judicial killings in fake stage-managed operations in IIOJK reflected the extremist anti-Muslim designs of the Hindutva inspired extremist BJP-RSS combine in India.

He recalled the burial of the last remains of martyrs at unknown locations without the consent and presence of their families in many instances, saying that it was yet another abhorrent manifestation of India's use of state-terrorism as a policy tool to suppress the just Kashmiri struggle for their inalienable right to self-determination.

“Pakistan calls on the international community to take immediate notice of India’s relentless oppression in the IIOJK. India’s ongoing, systematic and widespread human rights violations in IIOJK warrant investigation by UN Commission of Inquiry, as recommended by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in its Kashmir Reports of 2018 and 2019,” the FO spokesperson said.

“Pakistan also urges the international community to play its role for a just and peaceful resolution of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute in accordance with the relevant UNSC resolutions and wishes of the Kashmiri people for durable peace and stability in the region,” he added.