Senate condemns Kashmir brutalities

Passes resolution reaffirming solidarity with Kashmiri people

ISLAMABAD:

The Senate on Friday unanimously passed a resolution strongly reaffirming Pakistan's solidarity with the Kashmiri people in their just struggle for right to self-determination.

The resolution moved by Senator Kamil Ali Agha, reiterated Pakistan's moral, diplomatic, and political support to the Kashmiri people on Black Day, commemorated every year on Oct 27.

The Kashmir Black Day is an annual commemoration by Kashmiris as well as by Pakistanis across the world to mark Oct 27 as 'Black Day'. Every year, the day is marked to express solidarity and support Kashmiri people in their struggle for right to self-determination.

Seventy-four years ago, on this day, India without any legal justification, forcibly took control of the State of Jammu and Kashmir. Since then, the Indian occupied forces are mercilessly killing innocent and unarmed Kashmiris, vandalising their properties and indulging in other inhuman acts.

The resolution strongly condemned the Indian brutalities and killing of thousands of innocent Kashmiris in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).

It urged the international community for the expeditious formation of a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the gross human rights violation in IIOJK.

The house also rejected the conduct of fake elections in the held valley, adding that it violated the UNSC resolutions which stipulated that the final disposition of the disputed territory would be made in accordance with the aspiration of the Kashmiri people through the conduct of a free and impartial plebiscite under the UN.

The Senate also passed two more resolutions expressing profound grief and sorrow over the deaths of sitting Senator Rana Maqbool and former Senator S M Zafar.

The resolutions moved by Leader of the House Ishaq Dar and Kamil Ali Agha paid tributes to the services and contributions of Maqbool and Zafar, saying that they would be remembered for a long time.

The house through its resolutions extended condolences to the bereaved families and prayed for the departed souls

(With input from app)