GENEVA: Pakistan has urged the international community to place a premium on respect for human rights and to speak out for protecting the rights of the people in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
Addressing the UN Human Rights Council via video link, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar said that the international community’s silence had emboldened India to transform the Muslim majority into a minority and to disenfranchise Kashmiris.
The disturbing silence of the flag-bearers of human rights has encouraged Indian propensity to kill, rape, maim, and torture the Kashmiri women and youth.
She urged the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to present an updated report following its 2 previous reports that testified to India’s systematic violation of Kashmiri rights.
The minister also reiterated Pakistan’s strong condemnation of the recent incident of desecration of the Holy Quran in three countries.
Khar urges for protecting holy symbols dignity
She said that burning holy books, desecrating religious symbols, and disrespecting revered personalities was neither a right nor a freedom. Khar demanded that all governments worldwide stop such senseless acts, make legal deterrence against incitement to violence, and hold violators accountable to the law. –APP
