Shireen Mazari – Federal Minister for Human Rights, has said that India is guilty of war crimes in Kashmir.
Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, Shireen Mazari highlighted that India is committing war crimes by transferring Kashmiri political prisoners from Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) to various incarceration facilities across India.
India is violating Geneva Convention’s Article 76 and 83 due to its ill-treatment of women prisoners and the transfer of Kashmiri prisons, said Shireen Mazari.
Geneva Convention’s Article 76 provisions women prisoners to be provided separate quarters and must be supervised by female officers/staff. The article also guarantees the provision of visit by Red Cross officials – which is currently denied by Indian government.
Shireen Mazari was accompanied by prominent Kashmiri leader – Asiya Andrabi’s son, who is currently studying in Pakistan on scholarship, along with Andrabi’s nephew Mujahid Gillani.
Indian courts are preparing for a judicial murder of Kashmiri leader Dr Asiya Andrabi by awarding life imprisonment sentence to Asiya Andrabi, whereas her husband has also been incarcerated for the last 18 years, said Mazari.
Furthermore, Shireen Mazari also referred to Rome Statute of International Criminal Court’s Article 8, highlighting war crimes conducted by Indian forces in the disputed valley in the form of illegally occupying civilian lands.
It is to be noted that Pakistan has approached United Nations (UN) against ‘fabricated’ case against Kashmiri leader Asiya Andrabi.
In a letter to UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres, Pakistan had highlighted India’s draconian and inhumane policies targeting Kashmiri leadership and their illegal incarceration.
Asiya Andrabi and her associates are facing imminent threat to their lives and there is a real possibility of their ‘judicial murder’, argued the letter written by Munir Akram – Pakistan’s permanent representative in UN.
