Kashmiri delegation leaves for Geneva to attend 60th UNHRC session
Islamabad: A Kashmiri delegation left for Geneva to attend the 60th session of the United Nations Human Rights council (UNHRC).
According to Kashmir Media Service, the delegation includes political leaders, academicians, civil society members and rights activists, including APHC convener , Ghulam Muhammad Safi, Altaf Hussain Wani, Advocate Pervez Shah, Ms Shamim Shawl, Sardar Amjad Yousaf Khan, Prof. Shagufta Ashraf, and Dr. Raja Sajjad Latief.
During its week-long stay in Geneva, the delegation will attend the UNHRC session and hold important meetings with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, special rapporteurs, diplomats and representatives of international non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
The main objective of the visit is to bring to focus the ongoing human rights violations in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, particularly the rising incidents of extrajudicial killings, illegal detentions, atrocities, seizing of properties, suspending Kashmiri Muslim government employees, clampdown on political dissent and media freedom, attacks on right to education and religious rights and plight of the Kashmiri prisoners.
The delegation would also apprise the world community of the Indian government’s sinister designs aimed at changing the demography of occupied Jammu and Kashmir and its anti-Kashmir policies intended to minimize the majority community’s role in decision-making process and reduce their political representation in the legislature by granting voting rights to non-Kashmiris.
