ISLAMABAD – Pakistan seek yet another diplomatic success against India overOccupied Kashmir at international forum.
Over a dozen members of the European Parliament (EP) have written a letterto President of the European Commission Ursula Von Der Leyen and VicePresident Commission/High Representative Josep Borrell to immediatelyintervene over the alarming situation in the Indian Occupied Jammu andKashmir where intolerable suppression of freedom and fundamental rightsover the past seven decades continued unabated.
In their combined letter bearing signatures of fifteen Members of EP, theycalled upon the Commission on behalf of the European Union, to expresstheir concerns with the Indian government on these issues and ask forfulfillment of her International legal obligations by responding andadopting the recommendations in the UNHRC reports.
They said due to the continued tensions, the people of Indian OccupiedJammu and Kashmir had been subject to intolerable suppression of theirfreedom and fundamental rights as it was shown by the accounts of manyhuman rights organisations and the 2018 and 2019 reports of the Office ofthe UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
“The struggle for control over the region has led to a great number ofcivilian deaths and displaced people, the numbers rising in recent years asshown by the report of the Srinagar based Jammu and Kashmir Coalition ofCivil Society: generation after generation of Kashmiris have witnessednothing but unending oppression,” the contents of the letter said.
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Expressing their shared concerns, they said fulfilling the promises of the2019 election BJP’s electoral manifesto, Prime Minister Modi proceeded torevoke Kashmir’s special status with a presidential decree on August 5,2019.
In the lead-up to the move, India sent thousands of additional troops tothe disputed region, imposed a crippling curfew, shut downtelecommunications and internet and arrested political leaders, imposing anine months long military lockdown, thereby threatening the negotiationprocess, it added.
The letter was sent jointly by Fabio Massimo CASTALDO MEP (NI), BettinaVOLLATH MEP (S&D) Helmut SCHOLZ MEP (GUE/NGL), Maria ARENA MEP (S&D),Daniela RONDINELLI MEP (NI), Javier NART MEP (RENEW), Carles PUIGDEMONT ICASAMAJÓ MEP (NI),Antoni COMIN I OLIVERES MEP (NI), Clara PONSATÍ OBIOLSMEP (NI), Alviina ALAMETSÄ MEP (GREENS/EFA), Ernest URTASUN MEP(GREENS/EFA), Klaus BUCHNER MEP (GREENS/EFA), Mick WALLACE MEP (GUE/NGL),Rosa D’AMATO MEP (NI) and Manuel BOMPARD MEP (GUE/NGL).
