*Malaysian Consultative Council for Islamic Organizations (MAPIM) hascalled upon the United Nations (UN) to intervene in the case of Kashmiriactivist and political leader, Asiya Andrabi who is incarcerated in theTihar Jail in India.*
In a statement, the MAPIM has condemned the human rights violations ofKashmiris in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) by Indianforces.The council said that India must be held fully responsible for thecrimes being committed against humanity in IIOJK.
“India has no right to abrogate Kashmir’s autonomous status and it mustrefer to the UNSC resolution for a plebiscite to be conducted for thepeople of Kashmir to decide their own future,” the MAPIM said.
Voicing their concern, the Malaysian council said that the forceddemographic change to alter Kashmir from a Muslim majority populatedterritory to a Hindu dominated region is a dangerous path, *Radio Pakistanreported*.
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A regional instability will be an imminent outcome if this is not checked,the statement further said. The council also demanded that the concoctedcharges against Andrabi must be dropped and she should be releasedunconditionally.
The UN was urged to intervene in the case of Andrabi and her associates toensure the protection of their human rights. Andrabi has been under illegaland inhuman incarceration for more than 15 years on fabricated chargesunder draconian laws aimed at perpetuating India’s occupation of IIOJKthrough brutalisation of Kashmiri people.
