Pakistan on Tuesday, demanded international inquiry into the purported extrajudicial killings of Kashmiri laborers.
In a statement, Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) has demanded an independent inquiry by international experts into the extrajudicial killing of three innocent Kashmiri laborers at the hands of Indian Army in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK).
“The revelations that weapons were planted on the bodies of the Kashmiri laborers martyred in Kashmir to make it look as though they were armed fighters in a staged gun battle are only a tip of the ice-berg of Indian crimes against the Kashmiri people. The list of India’s crimes against the Kashmiri people is long,” read the official press-release.
Nothing short of an inquiry under international scrutiny will either meet the requirements of justice or accepted by the Kashmiris people. No cover-up exercises can anymore hide India’s crimes and save it from international censure, it added.
Pakistan has highlighted that more than 300 innocent Kashmiris including women and children have been martyred in fake ‘encounters’ and staged ‘cordon and search’ operations during the last one year.
It is pertinent to know that earlier, it was revealed that Captain Bhoopendra Singh of theIndian Army had extra judicially killed three innocent Kashmiri laborers back in July this year, and had later ‘planted’ weapons on their dead bodies to portray them as terrorists.
Pakistan has been consistently drawing the international community’s attention towards extra-judicial killings of innocent Kashmiris by the Indian occupation forces to further perpetuate India’s illegal occupation of IIOJK. Similar findings of extra-judicial killings have been reported by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in its two Kashmir reports of 2018 and 2019.
