Pakistan calls for judicial inquiry into killing of 3 Kashmiris
Pakistan has called for a transparent judicial inquiry under international scrutiny into the extrajudicial killing of three innocent Kashmiris two months ago in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
In a statement, Foreign Office Spokesperson Zahid Hafeez said the Indian occupation forces had martyred twenty-five-year-old Imtiyaz Ahmed, twenty-year-old Mohammad Ibrar, and sixteen-year-old Abrar Ahmed in a so-called cordon and search operation in Shopian on 18th July this year. He added the Indian occupation Army itself has admitted two months after the killing that the three innocent Kashmir laborers were killed extrajudicially. It is an acknowledgment that the Indian occupation forces are guilty of war crimes in the occupied territory. He said the international community must take immediate cognizance of the 18th July incident as well as other acts indicative of the RSS-BJP regime’s genocidal tendencies and hold it accountable for continuing crimes against the Kashmiri people.
The spokesperson said India has taken its brutalization of innocent Kashmiris to a new level since its illegal actions of 5th August last year.
“More than, three hundred mostly young Kashmiris have been extra-judicially killed by the Indian occupation forces in fake encounters and staged cordon and search operations in the occupied territory during the past one year,” he added.
The Indian army claimed that the three boys were “unidentified terrorists” to cover up for the “cold-blooded murder,” a statement by the Foreign Office said, adding that instead of handing over the human remains to the families of the victims, the armed forces had buried them in a graveyard marked for “foreign terrorists”. Two months later, in a statement issued on September 18, the Indian Army accepted that the powers vested under the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) were exceeded.
“The BJP leadership must realize that they are directly responsible for crimes against the Kashmiri people. No illegal and inhuman Acts such as Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and Public Safety Act (PSA) can provide immunity against the crimes that are being perpetrated in IIOJK,” the FO said.
Pakistan has urged the international community to take immediate cognizance of the July 18 episode in the India-occupied Kashmir as well as other acts indicative of the RSS-BJP regime’s genocidal tendencies and hold it accountable for continuing crimes against the Kashmiri people.
The spokesperson said India should be well aware that the use of brutal force cannot break the will of Kashmiri people in their just struggle for the inalienable right to self-determination.
Clearly, India’s strategy of using force in occupied Kashmir has totally failed!
