A Reuters file photograph of the locked down Srinagar.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has approached the United Nations Safety Council (UNSC), urging the world physique to play its function within the lifting of communication and different blockades in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJ&Ok) within the wake of coronavirus outbreak.
The event got here after India reported the primary demise from the novel coronavirus within the disputed Himalayan area.
Islamabad and human rights organisations are expressing issues that continued communication blackout in IOJ&Ok is a hindrance to get the precise statistics of coronavirus contaminated individuals.
A overseas workplace assertion stated {Foreign Minister} Shah Mahmood Qureshi wrote a letter to the president of UNSC, drawing his consideration in the direction of the present scenario within the occupied valley.
“Pakistan has been calling for immediate lifting of communication restrictions and unfettered access to medical and other essential supplies in IOJ&K in the wake of outbreak of coronavirus in the occupied territory,” the assertion stated.
“Similar voices have been raised by human rights organisations and the civil society, particularly after the confirmed cases and a death in IOJ&K due to the virus,” the FM wrote to the us chief.
Additionally, Qureshi within the letter drew the us consideration in the direction of the developments in IOJ&Ok in addition to “belligerent Indian rhetoric and aggressive actions” on the bottom.
“The Foreign Minister has been regularly updating the UNSC President and the UNSG on the Indian actions in IOJ&K since 5 [of] August 2019, posing threat to peace and security in South Asia,” the assertion stated.
In his current letter, transmitted on March 9, the FM inter alia rejected India’s false narrative of “normalcy” in IOJ&Ok; drew consideration to the “reprehensible remarks” of the Indian chief of defence workers about “deradicalisation” camps for Kashmiri youth; highlighted intensified ceasefire violations by the Indian forces on Line of Management (LoC) since December 12, 2019; and burdened the potential for India staging a ‘false flag’ operation to divert consideration from the grave human rights and humanitarian scenario in IOJ&Ok.
Moreover, Qureshi had highlighted “irresponsible statements” made by the Indian management, together with by the Indian prime minister, threatening using pressure in opposition to Pakistan.
The FM, significantly, highlighted India’s machinations in search of to alter the demographic construction of IOJ&Ok. On this regard, he talked about about forcible confiscation of properties of Kashmiris and allocation of over 6,000 acres of land to non-Kashmiris that could be a clear violation of worldwide legislation, together with the 4th Geneva Conference.
FM Qureshi additionally underlined that the focused killings of Muslims in New Delhi in February 2020 have been “directly attributable to the majoritarian mindset and supremacist and divisive Hindutva ideology”.
In his letter, he made clear that sturdy peace and stability in South Asia would stay contingent upon a simply and lasting answer of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute. As such, he underlined, that the Safety Council should stay seized of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute and play its function in enabling the individuals to train their proper to self-determination as promised to them below the related UNSC resolutions.
