Nawaz Sharif calls on Cabinet meeting to discuss Kashmir situation

Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhary on Wednesday briefed ambassadors belonging to the European Union (EU) countries upon the Indian atrocities being carried out in held Kashmir, reported Dunya News.

“The Foreign Secretary rejected Indian attempts to claim that the deteriorating human rights situation in IOK was an internal affair of India and emphasized the disputed nature of Jammu and Kashmir awaiting the implementation of the UNSC resolutions”, read the statement.

“A major grievance of those protesting in Kashmir is the failure of authorities to respect basic human rights”, Human Rights Watch (HRW) South Asia director Meenakshi Ganguly said in a statement.

“People on both sides will have to march and trample that bloody line that divides them”, he said referring to the de facto Kashmir border between India and Pakistan, known as the Line of Control.

The statement released by Office of the Spokesperson on Sunday said the extrajudicial killing of Kashmiri leader Burhan Wani and scores of other innocent Kashmiris is deplorable and condemnable. Struggle of Kashmiri people for liberation can not be suppressed through use of brute force and human rights abuses. Past lack of accountability for serious human rights violations has been a driving force in the protests. The longing for freedom in Kashmir will not die its own death, as some would want Indian people to believe. More than 2,000 people are injured including over 100 young boys who have lost their eyesight after being hit by pellets fired by Indian troops.

The uprising of 2008 in the region was the result of Governor SK giving a large tract of land to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) sparking unrest that led to hundreds of deaths and distrust between the people of Kashmir and Jammu.

“Despite 69 years of opportunity, India has not earned Kashmiri trust”, Indian author-journalist Aditya Sinha said in a column published this week in the Mumbai-based daily Mid-Day.

The meeting reiterated the condemnation of the killing of Kashmiri leader Burhan Wani and many other civilians by the Indian military and paramilitary forces. “We are not in the position, at the moment, to have any expectations from United States”. All this has been done to “contain” the angry population of the Valley, mourning and enraged at the killing of Burhan Muzaffar Wani and his two associates.