ISLAMABAD, Apr 19 (DNA): President Arif Alvi on Sunday denounced the

state-sponsored aggression in held Kashmir, saying that suppressing the

Kashmiris is the “dirty” priority of the Indian government.

Tweeting a picture showing the number of medical facilities available

for the people of the occupied valley, in relation to the outbreak of

Covid-19, the president said: “Their soldiers have carried out this

primary task through heinous brutalisation, torture and suppression.

With more than 95K innocent [people] killed since 1989 these numbers

shout out to the world.”

The dirty priority of the Indian Govt is to suppress the people of

Indian Occupied Kashmir. Their soldiers have carried out this primary

task through heinous brutalization, torture & suppression. With more

than 95K innocent killed since 1989 these numbers shout out to the

world.

Global media outlets and independent political observers have time and

again warned of a catastrophic spread of coronavirus in the occupied

territory which has been under complete lockdown since Aug 5 last year

when the Indian government unilaterally stripped the territory of its

semi-autonomous status.

Multiple publications have noticed that the lack of access to the

internet “has compounded the challenges for health care workers in the

isolated region, who face the looming pandemic with a severely deficient

health infrastructure”.

Last month, Pakistan had called on India to lift the communication

blockade imposed in occupied Kashmir and ensure supplies of essential

commodities in the valley to contain the spread of the infectious

disease and mitigate the suffering of the Kashmiris.

Held Kashmir’s tally surged past on April 17 with 5 reported deaths.

Health experts have attributed the relatively small number to inadequate

testing. DNA

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