Pakistan has urged United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) to hold India accountable for the situation in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
In a virtual address at 47th session of UNHRC, Pakistan’s envoy Khalil Hashmi accentuated that IIOJK has been subjected to grave human rights violation by Indian forces.
Urging UNHRC to play its role in ensuring the provision of fundamental rights of the people of IIOJK, Khalil Hashmi remarked that the human rights situation has been deteriorating in the disputed valley following India’s August 5th actions back in 2019.
The so called ‘flag bearers’ of human rights should play their due role as India continues to defy the UN Security Council resolutions and the Fourth Geneva Convention by accelerating the pace of demographic engineering of the disputed territory, he added.
Furthermore, Khalil Hashmi apprised that India has been using draconian laws, to inflict torture, arbitrary detentions and extrajudicial killing of Kashmiris aimed at suppressing the dissent and muzzling of local judiciary, gagging of media and silencing of civil society.
The situation has been further exacerbated via enforcing a military siege under COVID-19 pretext, said the Pakistani envoy to UNHRC.
