ISLAMABAD – Pakistan has strongly condemned the extrajudicial killings ofanother five Kashmiris by Indian occupation forces in Illegally IndianOccupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
A statement issued by the MOFA spokesperson Asim Iftikhar said the Indianoccupation forces have martyred at least 30 Kashmiris in fake encountersdubbed as ‘cordon and search operations’ in the last three weeks.
He added that the killing spree of Kashmiri citizens perpetuated by Indianoccupation forces continues with shameless impunity.
The extra-judicial killings expose the unspeakable violence beingperpetrated by the Hindutva inspired extremist BJP-RSS to combine that hasturned the caged valley into an inferno where no one, not even innocentcivilians, professionals, women, children and elderly are safe from thestate-terrorism of the occupation forces, it further added.
Foreign Office spox also condemned the inhuman and callous practice of nothanding over the mortal remains of the martyred Kashmiris to their families.
“Usurping the fundamental rights of Kashmiri families by denying them theright of proper burial of martyrs further exposes the current Indiangovernment’s moral bankruptcy,” the statement added.
The FO spokesman said the killings of Kashmiri civilians depicted theirrefutable facts provided by Pakistan in a comprehensive dossier that laidbare human rights violations and war crimes committed by Indian occupationforces in Indian Illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
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Meanwhile, Pakistan called on the international community to take immediatenotice of Indian state-sponsored terrorism in occupied Kashmir and to holdIndia accountable for the grave human rights violations.
The Pakistani government also urged the world leaders to play their rolefor peaceful resolution of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute in accordance withthe relevant UNSC resolutions and wishes of the Kashmiri people for durablepeace and stability in the region.
In the latest event of state-sponsored terrorism, Indian forces killed fiveKashmiris during their cordon and search operations in Pombai and Gopalporaareas of Kulgam district on Wednesday, taking the number of slain youth inthe territory to nine in the last four days.
The troops, on the orders of the Modi-led government agenda, also brutallykilled four civilians in a fake encounter in the Hyderpora area of Srinagar.
The families of martyred civilians accused Indian forces of murdering themin a cold-blooded way after taking them into a business centre to help thesearch for insurgents.
