UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has called on the UN Security Council to demand an end to India’s repressive military lockdown of occupied Kashmir, now in its second month, and move to implement its resolutions pledging the right of self-determination to the long-suffering Kashmiri people.
“This travesty must end,” Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi said in a firm tone during a UN General Assembly debate on the annual report of the 15-member Council on Thursday.
Early this week Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi during his address at the 42nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on 10th September 2019 highlighted the continued situation in Indian administered Kashmir.
He urged India to immediately stop the use of “pellet guns, end the bloodshed, lift the curfew, reverse the clampdown and communications blackout, restore fundamental freedoms and liberties, release political prisoners.”
Pakistan Foreign Office said in a statement this week that on 10 September, 2019 “Pakistan got a major diplomatic breakthrough at the United Nations Human Rights Council by delivering a historic Joint Statement on behalf of over 50 countries from across various regions regarding the “worsening human rights and humanitarian situation in IOJ&K.”
On August 5, New Delhi took the unprecedented step of revoking a special status accorded to Jammu and Kashmir in the Indian constitution, placing the entire region under curfew as a measure to limit and prevent protests in the area.
Pakistan calls for UNSC to demand end to curfew, rights violations in Kashmir
Pakistan calls for UNSC to demand end to curfew, rights violations in Kashmir
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