ISLAMABAD: sensitizing the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) on the current situation in Kashmir, controlled by India, Pakistan has once again urged the international community to meet the SOS calls of the besieged cashmere.
Apart from the 141st General Assembly of the IPU, the Pakistani parliamentary delegation met with the IPU President, Gabriela Cuevas Barron, and Secretary General Martin Chungong, in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, and informed them about violations of the human rights in Kashmir of India and the difficulties of people in the occupied. Valley had been facing due to curfew for more than two months.
According to the Secretariat of the National Assembly, the Pakistani delegation asked the IPU to send a research mission to the region to determine the scale and magnitude of human suffering in Kashmir in detention.
Directed by the President of the Kashmir Committee, MNA Syed Fakhar Imam, members of the Pakistani delegation included Senator Sherry Rehman, MNA Malik Ehsanullah Tiwana and MNA Shazia Marri.
Mr. Imam urged the world parliamentary body to help convince India to implement the resolutions of the UN Security Council in the wake of the recent increase in the atrocities of New Delhi in the occupied valley.
The Interparliamentary Union is urged to send a research mission to Kashmir controlled by India
He called for the immediate lifting of all restrictions on mobility and communications, since the valley had seen an uninterrupted curfew throughout the day from August 5 until the end of September, just to relax in selected areas.
Qualifying Kashmir in India as the "largest outdoor prison in the world," he lamented the inhuman detention of all Kashmir leadership, in addition to the kidnapping of thousands of young people.
Referring to the recommendations of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Imam supported the call of the world human rights body to establish a UN commission to investigate human rights violations in Kashmir in detention. He regretted that India had prevented international observer missions from entering the occupied valley.
"He regrets to take into account that, although international media and world human rights organizations have condemned India for its undemocratic and abrasive handling of the situation, they have so far failed to convince Indian leaders to visit again his fascist and racist actions. " said.
Mr. Imam also gave a full description of the Kashmir dispute and presented details of the atrocities of India over the years.
“Since 1989, around 100,000 cashmere have been martyred by the Indian occupation forces. Of these, 7,130 people have been killed in custody, ”he said.
Imam elaborated on the plight of Kashmir by informing the IPU leaders that the occupying Indian authorities had even relegated to using rape as a weapon of terror. “There are more than 12,000 cases of rapes, while more than one million children have been orphaned. Indian forces have not accounted for more than 7,000 mass graves discovered so far with thousands of victims of false encounters, "he added.
Senator Rehman said the IPU was better able to use its resources to bring India to the negotiating table. "The very fact that India has continued to avoid dialogue and has persistently prevented any international agency or people visiting the besieged valley to verify the facts demonstrates that India wants to hide its crimes against humanity," he added.
The IPU president, Barron, noted that, in his opinion, the South Asian region and the Indo-Pak borders were the most dangerous borders in the world, which divided the two opposing nuclear powers. He stressed the need to maintain peace and said he would visit the region in December to help develop an environment conducive to the dialogue between India and Pakistan.
The IPU Secretary General, Chungong, offered to facilitate talks between India and Pakistan if the two sides agree.
Posted on Dawn, October 16, 2019
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