Pakistan has strongly condemned extra-judicial killings by Indian forces in Kashmir followed by India’s refusal to hand over dead bodies of martyred Kashmiris to their families.
In a statement, Pakistan has denounced the extra-judicial killing of three Kashmiri youth in Srinagar on December 29th last week.
The families and neighbors of the martyred Kashmiris — Aijaz Maqbool Ganie, Zubair Ahmed Lone, and Athar Mushtaq Wani (aged 16 and student of Class-11) — have affirmed that the young boys were innocent, who visited Srinagar on the fateful day and became victims of Indian state-terrorism, said MoFA.
Pakistan has highlighted that it is ‘inhumane’ to refuse the handing over of the dead bodies to the families for a proper burial and that this is a new form of oppression that the Indian occupation forces are now resorting to in order to break the will of the Kashmiri people.
Pakistan has stressed upon the fact that these unabated killing sprees in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (IIOJK) and the reprehensible refusal to hand over the bodies should be a matter of grave concern for the people of conscience across the world. The morally bankrupt RSS-BJP regime should not be allowed to act with such impunity.
Pakistan has been consistently highlighting grave human rights violations by Indian forces in the occupied valley and that the situation in Kashmir need to be investigated by a United Nations (UN) Commission as per the OHCHR in its Kashmir reports of 2018 and 2019.
A History of Fake Encounters
Indian Army is notorious for its history of fake encounters in the disputed valley resulting in deaths of innumerable innocent Kashmiris being killed at the hands of Indian forces.
Back in year 2000, Indian Army had claimed to have killed five men who were responsible for killing 35 Sikhs. However, it was revealed that the deceased were wrongfully accused of heinous crimes and in-fact had been killed in a fake encounter by Indian forces.
In 2010, two officers of the Indian Army were found guilty of killing three Kashmiri civilians in a fake encounter, who had wrongfully labeled the deceased Kashmiris as ‘terrorists’ in order to be able to claim reward/bounty.
It is pertinent to know that since 1989, India has blatantly refused to prosecute its army personnel accused of various heinous crimes such as rape, murder in civilian courts.
