PM Khan demands UN to play role in ending massacre in IOK
Last updated on: 21 December,2018 09:51 am
He expressed his concern during a telephonic conversation with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - Prime Minister Imran Khan has urged the United Nations to take the notice of grave human rights violations in Indian Occupied Kashmir.
He expressed his concern during a telephonic conversation with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Thursday.
The Prime Minister also underscored UN’s role to end human rights violations being perpetrated by occupied Indian forces against Kasmiris.
Earlier, he also denounced the killing of innocent Kashmiris and stressed upon dialogue to resolve the issue.
Strongly condemn killing of innocent Kashmiri civilians in Pulwama IOK by Indian security forces. Only dialogue & not violence & killings will resolve this conflict. We will raise issue of India s human rights violations in IOK & demand UNSC fulfil its J&K plebiscite commitment
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) December 16, 2018PM Khan maintained that Kashmiris must be allowed to decide their future.
Kashmiris must be allowed to decide their future. https://t.co/Y91PUVckh8
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) December 16, 2018Meanhwile, Foreign Office Spokesperson Dr Muhammad Faisal also strongly condemn the ongoing killing spree in Occupied Kashmir and called upon the international community to take notice of the situation and urge India to stop bloodshed in the held territory.
Addressing weekly news briefing in Islamabad, he said that India cannot suppress the voice of innocent Kashmiris with power.
The spokesperson said that Pakistan will continue with its moral, diplomatic and political support to the people of Kashmir and their just right to self-determination.
Pakistan has also written letters to the Secretary Generals of the United Nations and OIC and a meeting of Contact Group on Kashmir will also be held soon, he said.
Dr Faisal said that India should allow the international institutions to probe brutalities on the innocent Kashmiri people in the Occupied Kashmir.
Both National Assembly and Senate unanimously passed a resolution strongly condemning recent wave of repression and violence by the Indian security forces in Occupied Kashmir including the direct shooting at demonstrators in Pulwama claiming lives of a number of innocent Kashmiris and injuring many.