Pakistan on International Human Rights Day, has highlighted grave and worrisome human rights situation in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOK).
In a statement in correlation with International Human Rights Day, Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) underlined the deteriorating human rights situation in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) by Indian forces.
Pakistan has called on the international community to hold India accountable for serious crimes against the Kashmiri people in IIOJK. India must be called upon to accept a UN Commission of Inquiry for an independent and impartial investigation of the situation in the disputed valley.
“On this day, we must particularly keep in our thoughts and prayers the oppressed people in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), who are not only being denied their inalienable right to self-determination for over seven decades, but also facing gruesome repression at the hands of Indian occupation forces acting with full impunity”, read the press release issued by MoFA.
India’s gross and systematic violations of human rights in IIOJK have been comprehensively documented in the two Kashmir reports of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) as well as by the UN Special Procedure Mandate Holders, international civil society and the media, it added.
Furthermore, Pakistan reiterated its commitment to the preservation of human rights on International Human Rights Day to commemorate the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations on 10 December 1948.
Pakistan has also underscored government’s vision to reshape Pakistan in the image of the State of Madinah established by our Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
