Jammu and Kashmir unresolved dispute on UN agenda: FO Spokesperson
Says disputed status of Kashmir cannot be changed by Indian tactics
Islamabad : Pakistan has categorically stated that Jammu and Kashmir is an unresolved dispute on the agenda of the United Nations, and the disputed status of Kashmir cannot be changed by Indian claims and tactics.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Foreign Office Spokesperson Sajjad Haider Khan at his weekly press briefing in Islamabad today condemned the serious human rights violations in illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir by India.
He said there is concern over the health of illegally detained Hurriyat leader Yasin Malik. He said Pakistan condemns the illegal imprisonment of Yasin Malik.
About the affidavit submitted by Yasin Malik, in connection with the trumped-up charges dating back to 1990, he said that the stance taken by him was beyond an act of heroism, which was a damning indictment of the Indian judicial system, striking a stinging blow to the judicial sham that the Indian government wanted to stage in its sinister campaign to malign the Kashmiri leadership.
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About the demolition of mosques in India, he said Pakistan expressed deep concern and strongly condemned the systematic and state-sanctioned demolition of Islamic holy places in India, which directly breached the 1950 Liaquat-Nehru Pact as well as India’s own laws, particularly the Places of Worship Act, 1991, mandating that the religious character of a place of worship should be maintained.
He said the Hindutva-driven Islamophobic campaign has posed an imminent threat resulting in the destruction of centuries-old heritage sites and places of worship, adding that the demolition of the historic Babri Mosque in 1992 remained a dreadful memory of this ideology of religious intolerance, prejudice, and hatred.
The spokesperson called upon the international community to take immediate notice of the systematic persecution taking place against Muslims in India, as well as the continued desecration and destruction of their places of worship.
He reiterated that Pakistan would continue to raise its case and the human rights situation in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir at all international fora as the Kashmiris’ right to self-determination, as enshrined in the United Nations Security Council resolutions, cannot be diminished by Indian state oppression.
