MULTAN – Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi Sunday said grave humanrights violations were being committed by occupation forces in the Indianoccupied Kashmir (IoK), which could turn into a worst tragedy.
Talking to journalists before attending a “Kashmir Bane Ga Pakistan” rallyhere, Qureshi said the Indian atrocities on the people of held valley wereincreasing with each passing day. The international community should payspecial attention to resolve the Kashmir issue, he added.
He said the Indian government had not allowed opposition leader RahulGandhi to visit Kashmir and sent him back to New Delhi from Srinager.
He said he himself had contacted the United Nations Human Rights Commissionand the UN secretary general and apprised them about the critical situationin IoK.
The held valley had been under round the clock curfew for the last 21 daysand with shortage of medicines and food, the situation for the people ofKashmir had become critical, he added.
The minister said India had tried to make Kashmir as its internal matterbut it had been exposed by Pakistan through intensive foreign diplomacy.The Islamic countries were already in support of Pakistan on the issuewhile Iran, Turkey and Malaysia had also raised their voice for theKashmiri people, he added.
He said the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) should play its roleand help stop Indian brutalities on the innocent people of Kashmir. Therewere reports that India was planning to send extremists of RashtriyaSwayamsevak Sangh to Jammu and Kashmir and the international community totake notice of that, he added.
Qureshi said he would participate in a meeting about human rights to beheld in Geneva on September 9 and inform the world about the situation inthe occupied valley.
Kashmir was internationally recognized as a disputed territory and Indiawas violating resolutions of the United Nations, he said.
He urged the human rights organizations to visit IoK, inspect the groundsituation there and then inform the world about it.
To a question, he said the United Nations should send its delegations toKashmir and play its role in lifting curfew. He would soon met the UnitedArab
Emirates foreign minister and inform him about actual situation in IoK. Hesaid the United States a was ready to play a role of mediator on theKashmir issue but India had refused.
He lauded the local media for organizing a rally in Azad Kashmir forcondemning the torture on Indian journalists at Srinagar airport.
He questioned If there was normal situation in IoK then why the Indianopposition leaders were not been allowed to visit the valley. If there wereno human rights violations in the IoK then why the hurdles were beingcreated, Qureshi added quoting Indian leader Ghulam Nabi Azaad.
He hoped that the Islamic countries would extend their support to Pakistanon the Kashmir issue.
Addressing a public meeting regarding Kashmir, Shah Mahmood Qureshi saidthe voice of Kashmiris could not be suppressed and their sacrifices wouldbear fruits.