Saturday, August 17th, 2019
People of Jammu and Kashmir should not be treated as pawns: Amnesty International
Human rights watchdog Amnesty International, following Modi-led Hindu nationalist Indian government’s human rights’ abuses in occupied Kashmir, asserted that the international community must come together to call for the human rights to be respected. Kumi Naidoo, Secretary General of Amnesty International in a statement issued on its website, said, “The actions of the Indian government have thrown ordinary people’s lives into turmoil, subjecting them to unnecessary pain and distress on top of the years of human rights violations they have already endured.” “The people of Jammu and Kashmir should notRead More
‘OIC demands India to immediately lift curfew in Kashmir’
ISLAMABAD (DNA) – In what is being considered as another diplomatic achievement for Pakistan, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has demanded India to immediately lift the stringent curfew in occupied Kashmir that has paralysed human life across the entire region for 13 days. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi revealed the OIC decision in a video message. “It is another diplomatic achievement for Pakistan that the OIC has demanded that India immediately lift curfew from occupied Kashmir.” Qureshi said he had engaged OIC members in the recent past and participatedRead More
‘Jammu and Kashmir status to be settled in accordance with UN Charter’
UNITED NATIONS (DNA) – United Nations has maintained its stance on the Kashmir dispute between Pakistan and India, and has been following the situation in Jammu and Kashmir “with concern” while appealing both sides to exercise “maximum restraint”. According to a statement issued by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on August 8: “The position of the United Nations on this region is governed by the Charter…and applicable Security Council resolutions”, said the statement. “The Secretary-General also recalls the 1972 Agreement on bilateral relations between India and Pakistan also known as theRead More
England demands investigations of human rights violations in IoK: Maleeha Lodhi
NEW YORK, (DNA) – Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dr Maleeha Lodhi said that England has demanded independent investigations of human rights violations in Indian-occupied Kashmir (IoK). Dr Maleeha Lodhi told that India tried to stop the UN Security Council (UNSC) meeting in New York over Kashmir issue, and its occurrence itself is a major development. Dr Maleeha Lodhi said the UNSC session admitted that Kashmir is an internationally recognized dispute. Kuwait also stressed on implementation of the UN resolutions over the issue, she added.
The Kashmir crisis isn’t about territory. It’s about a Hindu victory over Islam.
For two weeks, Kashmir, India’s sole Muslim-majority state, has existed in a surreal state of nonexistence. Since a presidential decree abolished the state, revoked its autonomy and partitioned it into two federally administered territories, the Internet has been shut down, cellular networks have been disabled, and even landlines went dead. Public assembly is banned, and citizens are under curfew. A soldier has been stationed outside every house in some villages. Eight million people have been cut off from the world — and from one another. Pharmacies are running out ofRead More
Kashmir issue: Govt should send Parliamentary delegations abroad, says PPP’s Kaira
ISLAMABAD (DNA) – Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) leader Qamar Zaman Kaira on Friday said that only tweets would not work but the Parliamentary delegations should be sent abroad against Indian move to scrape occupied Kashmir’s special status. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, he said that the situation along the Line of Control (LoC) has deteriorated since the situation in the occupied Kashmir deteriorated after India revoked Article 370 and 35A. Kaira went on to say that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) failed to find anything despite keeping former presidentRead More