ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has welcomed the statement of Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission (IPHRC) of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) that strongly condemned and rejected India’s illegal actions to redefine domicile rules in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir with an objective to alter its demographics.
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Foreign Office Spokesperson Aisha Farooqui in a tweet said the OIC-IPHRC statement called India’s ‘Settlement Colonialism’ as against the United Nations Security Council, Fourth Geneva Convention and also contrary to international human rights law.
“The statement notes that since 5 Aug 2019, India,despite widespread international condemnation from UN, OIC and other human rights bodies, continues to pursue systematic persecution of Kashmiri Muslims through vicious political, economic and communication blockade in IoJ&K,” the FO Spokesperson said.
