ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party President Overseas and former interior minister Senator Rehman Malik has written a letter to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) against the recent and ongoing killings of innocent people by the Indian forces in Indian-held Kashmir.
He asked the high commissioner to move against the Indian government and take necessary actions under the charter of the UN. In his letter the senator wrote that Pakistan People’s Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto had also taken a very serious notice of the killing of the Kashmiri people by the Indian forces.
He wrote, “The Indian Forces have butchered more than 45 people and more than 300 have been seriously injured in this barbarism since Friday, July 8, 2016 and it is still continued”. He added that it was very disappointing to note that the world had chosen to ignore these sheer violations of the human rights just to oblige the India.
Expressing his displeasure over the silence of International Human Rights Organizations, the senator wrote that no action had been taken by the international human rights organisations whereas there should have been a visit by the UN Human Rights Commission to investigate these utter and sheer violations of human rights.
“This recent sheer violation of human rights looks to be going unnoticed this time too like in past major incidents of human rights violation in the region by the Indian forces; why is it being overlooked by International Human Rights bodies including the UN Human Rights Commission?” he questioned in his letter.
Supporting the cause of the people of Kashmir who are struggling peacefully for their right of self-determination he wrote that the people of the region were simply asking for their right of self-determination referring to the UN Security Council Resolution 47, adopted on April 21, 1948 which was passed in their favour.
He added that the people of Kashmir were gathered to pay tribute to their leader Burhan Wani who was killed in custody earlier by the Indian Army. “Such killings of innocent people have become continuous routine by the Indian forces against the oppressed people of Kashmir which proves that the Indian forces have no value for the human rights and the human lives.”
He said in his letter that it was not for first time but the same had happened back in 2010 in which more than 120 innocent young Kashimiris were killed by the Indian Army but unfortunately nobody was held responsible for that brutality due to the lack of interest of the international human rights organisation in that painful tragedy.
The senator expressed his hope and appealed the high commissioner to appoint a commission to investigate these killings and raise the matter at his level in the UN General Assembly with the proposed resolution asking the Indian Government to stop forthwith this brutality in the region.
On the behalf of workers of PPP and the people of Pakistan, he wrote that “we strongly protest against this continued killing of innocent people in India Held Kashmir as this is the worst example of violation of human rights.”
