FM asks UN to monitor situation in occupied Kashmir
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Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has sent a letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights drawing his attention towards worsening human rights situation in occupied Kashmir in particular and in India as a whole following the Pulwama incident.
The Foreign Minister pointed out that the situation is turning from bad to worse. He said there is now a concerted campaign to whip up hatred and violence against Kashmiris and discrimination against them across India.
He welcomed the concerns shown by the UN High Commissioner on 19th of this month about using Pulwama attack by such elements as justification for threats and violence against Kashmiris and Muslims in various parts of India.
Shah Mehmood Qureshi asked the UN High Commissioner to continue monitoring of the situation and to call for protecting people from all forms of harm on account of their identity and ethnicity.
He urged the UN High Commissioner to issue a call on India to allow unhindered access to UN mechanisms to occupied Kashmir.
He stressed that India must also be obliged to comply with its international humanitarian law obligations with respect to the held valley.
Shah Mehmood Qureshi also welcomed the call made earlier this week on India by the European Parliament's Sub-Committee on Human Rights to end its atrocities in the occupied Kashmir.
