ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan has said the observance of theKashmir Solidarity Day commemorates the strong and unflinching resolve ofthe Kashmiris to achieve the inalienable right to self-determinationfrom Indian subjugation.
The Prime Minister, in a message on the Kashmir Solidarity Day beingcommemorated on February 5, said that such resolve of the Kashmiris had notweakened rather strengthened withevery passing day and with each new act of Indian cruelty in the IndianOccupied Jammu andKashmir (IoK).
He said seven decades had passed and the dispute of Jammu and Kashmirremained unresolved.
He said the report of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights(OHCHR) on Jammu and Kashmir echoed Pakistan’s repeated calls to theinternational community to take stock of India’s brutal use of pellet guns,indiscriminate firing, use of human shields and promulgation of thedraconian Armed Force Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and Public Safety Act(PSA) that were making lives of the people in Indian Occupied Jammu andKashmira living hell.
“Ruthless killings, pellet injuries to children and infants, rapes andtorture; Indian atrocitiesin Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir continue unabated and so does thespirit and courageof Kashmiris in their fight to achieve the legitimate right toself-determination,” he added.
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The Prime Minister said Kashmiris had been fervently demanding an end toIndia’s illegitimaterule, spanning more than 70 long and bloody years.
He said since 1947, the number of tortures, molestation and killingsperpetrated by the Indianoccupation forces against innocent Kashmiris had become a case study inunprecedentedviolence.
The Prime Minister said thousands of innocent Kashmiris had been brutallytortured andextra-judicially killed during forced disappearances or illegal custody bythe Indian occupationforces, which enjoyed full immunity under draconian laws.
