KUALA LUMPUR: Syed Ahsan Raza Shah, Pakistan High Commissioner in Malaysia, on Sunday, urged the international organizations and human rights bodies to ensure the right of self-determination to the oppressed Kashmiris in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) according to the relevant UN resolutions.
He was addressing a Kashmir solidarity day event organized at the International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies jointly arranged by a collaboration of Majlis Perundingan Pertubuhan Islam Malaysia and the High Commission of Pakistan in Kuala Lumpur with the collaboration of IAIS.
The high commissioner apprised the participants that for the last 7 decades, the Indian state had systematically converted IIOJK into the largest open prison, where it had been oppressing innocent Muslims through ethnic cleansing and the worst forms of human rights abuses.
He said the illegal Indian armed forces continued to use rape as a weapon of war; they had blinded hundreds of Kashmiri youth and children by firing pellet guns directly at the faces; likewise, torture, implication in fictitious cases, illegal detentions, indiscriminate use of force under the impunity of draconian laws and systemized campaigns to rob the Kashmiris of their distinct cultural and religious identities marked the reality of India’s brutal occupation of the occupied territory.
Pakistan’s HC Emphasizes 7-point Agenda
Emphasizing the 7-point agenda presented by international Human Rights and Muslim Rights activist Cikzu Azmi Abdul Hamid to resolve the Kashmir conflict, the envoy said it was a landmark guideline for ensuing peace in Kashmir and getting rid of human rights violations going on in the valley.
He also expressed concern over the sheer barbaric and inhumane brutalities, destruction, and killings of innocent Palestinians, saying that the situation in Palestine served as a painful reminder of the similar sufferings of the Kashmiri people at the hands of an RSS-led, Hindutva-inspired, fascist, and Islamophobic BJP regime that was hell-bent on persecuting the Indian Muslims through worst forms of oppression.
