Day: December 10, 2020

Islamabad, December 10, 2020 (PPI-OT): Minister for Information and Broadcasting Shibli Faraz has urged the world champions of human rights to take notice of the worst tyrannies being committed against innocent Kashmiris and the gross human rights violations in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).

In a tweet on International Human Rights Day on Thursday, he said practical steps also need to be taken to hold India and its occupation forces accountable.

The Minister said Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir has been turned into the biggest prison of the world since August 5, 2019. He said women, elderly people and children have been restricted to their homes, and there is communication blackout and severe restrictions.

Shibli Faraz says the perception of International Human Rights Day can be globally enhanced by stopping the Indian crimes and protecting the basic human rights of Kashmiris.

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Islamabad, December 10, 2020 (PPI-OT): Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi says basic human rights have been usurped in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) and there is complete communication blackout in the held valley.

In a statement on the occasion of International Human Rights Day on Thursday, he said the foreign media is not being provided access to Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir and the reports being received from there are worth-concerning.

The Minister said Pakistan kept apprised the UN Secretary General, the President of the UN Security Council and other world leaders of the grave human rights situation in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

He said minorities in India are holding protest demonstrations, and India’s perception as secular state and the largest democracy of the world has been badly damaged.

Shah Mahmood Qureshi said the world parliaments need to raise voice over the serious human rights violations in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

He said we are also informing the world about the threat of a false flag operation from India.

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Srinagar, December 10, 2020 (PPI-OT): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Indian troops beat up three journalists in Islamabad district, today.

The troops beat up the journalists, Fayaz Ahmed, Mudasir Qadri and Juanid Ahmed, while they were performing their professional duties in Srigufwara area of the district during the 5th phase of District Development Council (DDC) elections in the area.

Fayaz Ahmed talking to media men said that he along with other journalists was beaten up and all the equipments were seized by the troops.

We are under detention while Junaid is admitted in a hospital in Srigufwara, he added.

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Srinagar, December 10, 2020 (PPI-OT): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference and other Hurriyat leaders and organizations have condemned the grave human rights violations by Indian forces and urged the United Nations and other international human rights bodies to come for rescue of helpless Kashmiris.

The APHC General Secretary, Molvi Bashir Ahmad Irfani, in a statement issued in Srinagar on the World Human Rights Day, today, said that Modi-led Indian government had broken all records of atrocities in IIOJK. He said that the real face of India had been exposed to the world and now the international community should know that no minority was safe in India.

Expressing grave concern over the grave human rights situation in IIOJK, he urged the world community to take serious note of the Indian state terrorism in the territory.

The Chairperson of Muslim Khawateen Markaz, Yasmeen Raja, in a statement issued in Srinagar demanded of India to end its military might policy and harassment in the territory. She deplored that during the COVID-19 pandemic India accelerated its cordon and search operations and continued its state terrorism in the territory.

Hurriyat leader, Javaid Ahmed Mir, speaking to a condolence meeting at Soura in Srinagar deplored that the people of IIOJK had been facing the worst human rights violations by Indian troops for the last over seven decades in general and since 1989 in particular. He said that the unprecedented sacrifices of the Kashmiri people would never go waste but would bring positive results soon.

The Jammu and Kashmir National Front spokesman in a statement issued in Srinagar said, the world must realize its moral obligations and stand up for the rights of the Kashmiri people. He said, “It is time the government of India should be pressurized to rescind its recent actions and pave way for holding a referendum in the region to allow Kashmiris exercise their inalienable right, the right to self-determination.”

The spokesman of Jammu and Kashmir Employees Movement (JKEM) in a statement issued in Srinagar said, today the entire world is observing Human Right Day but the people of Kashmir are facing Indian brutalities. He condemned the continued cordon and search operations, killings and arrest of youth by Indian troops in the territory and urged world human rights bodies to take notice of the worst situation of IIOJK. He said, these atrocities are being committed to suppress the Kashmiris’ voice but freedom movements never get suppressed by these kinds of tyrannies.

The Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Gujjar Pahari Democratic Forum, Chaudhry Shaheen Iqbal, in a statement in Srinagar said, every day of the Kashmiri people starts with arrests of innocent people and house searches. He said that draconian laws including Public Safety Act (PSA) and Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), imposed by India in IIOJK give unbridled powers to Indian troops to arrest innocent people and kill them in fake encounters. He said, Kashmiris will never tolerate killing spree and atrocities and will continue their protest against these undemocratic and inhuman acts.

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Islamabad, December 10, 2020 (PPI-OT): As the World Human Rights Day is being observed across the globe, today, Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir continues to reel under brutal Indian occupation.

A report released by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service on the occasion of the World Human Rights Day, today, said that Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 1948 was indeed a milestone, but the Kashmiris human rights continued to be violated with impunity. It said among 30 basic human rights enlisted in the UDHR, not even one exists in IIOJK.

The report said that Indian occupational forces had been violating the UDHR in the occupied territory for the last over 7 decades and mercilessly killing, arresting, torturing and humiliating innocent Kashmiris of every age and gender for demanding their right to self-determination.

The report pointed out that Indian troops in their unabated acts of state terrorism have martyred 95,728 innocent Kashmiris including 7,155 in custody since January 1989 till date. It said that these killings rendered 22,924 women widowed and 107,811 children orphaned. It said that the troops molested or disgraced 11,231 women and damaged 110,375 residential houses and other structures. It maintained that Indian troops and police personnel subjected over 8,000 people to custodial disappearance in the period.

The report maintained that thousands of young school boys and girls were also injured by the pellets fired by the troops while dozens including19-month-old Hibba Jan, Asif Ahmed Sheikh (10), Aaqib Zahoor (16), Ulfat Hameed (17), Bilal Ahmed Butt (17), Insha Mushtaq, Tariq Ahmed Gojri (19) and Faizan Ashraf Tantray (19) lost their eyesight completely due to the pellet injuries.

The report pointed out that 295 Kashmiris including 7 women have been martyred, 27 of them in fake encounters or custody, since repeal of special status of IIOJK and imposition of military siege by Narendra Modi-led fascist government on 5th August 2019 in the territory. It said that the troops molested 94 women after barging into the residential houses in the period.

The report said that the occupation authorities did not allow people to offer Friday prayers at historical Jamia Masjid in Srinagar and other mosques, shrines and imambargahs of the territory for months together after August 05, last year. It said, the authorities have also disallowed the masses to hold religious gatherings like Muharram and Eid Milad-un-Nabi (SAW) processions during this period.

The report said life remains badly affected and economy adversely hurt in IIOJK due to the continued military siege and ban on 4G internet services. It said Hurriyat leaders and activists including Muhammad Yasin Malik, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Masarrat Aalam Butt, Aasiya Andrabi, Nayeem Ahmed Khan, Fehmeeda Sofi, Naheeda Nasreen, Altaf Ahmed Shah, Ayaz Muhammad Akbar, Peer Saifullah, Raja Merajuddin Kalwal, Shahid-ul-Islam, Farooq Ahmed Dar, Syed Shahid Yousuf, Syed Shakeel Yousuf, Ghulam Muhammad Butt and businessman Zahoor Watali continue to remain in detention in New Delhi’s infamous Tihar Jail in fake cases registered against them.

Thousands of people including Hurriyat leaders and activists like Jamaat-e-Islami chief Dr Abdul Hameed Fayaz, Advocate Zahid Ali, Muhammad Yousuf Mir, Muhammad Yusuf Falahi, Zahoor Ahmed, Muhammad Rafiq Ganai, Zahoor Ahmed Butt, Mir Hafeezullah, Farooq Ahmed Tawheedi, Hayat Ahmed Butt and journalist, Aasif Sultan, remain lodged in different jails of IIOJK and India under black law, Public Safety Act, it added.

The report maintained that the occupation authorities have kept the veteran Hurriyat leader, Syed Ali Gilani, and Chairman of Hurriyat forum, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, under house detention since long time and have not allowed them to carry out their political activities and even they have not been allowed to offer Friday prayers and address public meetings.

The report pointed out that this is high time for the world community to come forward in a big way and impress upon India to stop its state terrorism in IIOJK and give the Kashmiris their right to self-determination.

Meanwhile, Hurriyat leaders in their separate statements have appealed to the United Nations and international human rights organizations to send their teams to take stock of the worst human rights situation in the occupied territory.

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Srinagar, December 10, 2020 (PPI-OT): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples League (JKPL) held a protest demonstration in Srinagar, today, to draw attention of the world community to the human rights violations by Indian troops in the territory.

The demonstration held at Gawkadal in Srinagar was led by JKPL chief organisar, Dr Sarfaraz Ahmed Khan, and participated by party members. On the occasion, Dr Sarfaraz Ahmed Khan said that Indian troops were involved in the killing of tens of thousands of innocent Kashmiris, destruction of properties worth billions and subjecting thousands of Kashmiris to custodial disappearance besides snatching the eyesight of hundreds others by firing pellets on protesters in the occupied territory.

He said that the UN had unanimously adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and agreed that all nations of the world would uphold the human rights of all people, irrespective of their religion, creed and colour. However, he deplored that despite the signing of this global document by India, the human rights abuses by Indian troops continued unabated in IIOJK.

The JKPL leader urged New Delhi to abide by the international law and initiate a process of providing justice to the victims of its state terrorism in the territory.

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Srinagar, December 10, 2020 (PPI-OT): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference and other Hurriyat leaders and organizations have condemned the grave human rights violations by Indian forces and urged the United Nations and other international human rights bodies to come for rescue of helpless Kashmiris.

According to Kashmir Media Service, the APHC General Secretary, Molvi Bashir Ahmad Irfani, in a statement issued in Srinagar on the World Human Rights Day, today, said that Modi-led Indian government had broken all records of atrocities in IIOJK. He said that the real face of India had been exposed to the world and now the international community should know that no minority was safe in India.

Expressing grave concern over the grave human rights situation in IIOJK, he urged the world community to take serious note of the Indian state terrorism in the territory.

The Chairperson of Muslim Khawateen Markaz, Yasmeen Raja, in a statement issued in Srinagar demanded of India to end its military might policy and harassment in the territory. She deplored that during the COVID-19 pandemic India accelerated its cordon and search operations and continued its state terrorism in the territory.

Hurriyat leader, Javaid Ahmed Mir, speaking to a condolence meeting at Soura in Srinagar deplored that the people of IIOJK had been facing the worst human rights violations by Indian troops for the last over seven decades in general and since 1989 in particular. He said that the unprecedented sacrifices of the Kashmiri people would never go waste but would bring positive results soon.

The Chairman of International Forum for Justice and Human Rights Jammu and Kashmir, Mohammed Ahsan Untoo, in a statement in Srinagar said, the International Human Rights Day is being observed all over the world, today, but there seems to be no end to the Indian atrocities on people of the occupied territory. He said that human rights abuses by the Indian forces’ personnel including unlawful killings, rape and disappearances have often gone un-investigated and unpunished. Prolonged curfews, restriction of people’s movement, suspension of mobile and internet services are the order of the day in the occupied territory, he added.

Untoo said Indian troops are also intruding the local residential areas, vandalizing the homes unnecessarily and beating the youth without any reason. He said, the world should hear the voices of oppressed Kashmiris and should take notice of the Indian state terrorism in the occupied territory.

The Jammu and Kashmir National Front spokesman in a statement issued in Srinagar said, the world must realize its moral obligations and stand up for the rights of the Kashmiri people.

He said, “It is time the government of India should be pressurized to rescind its recent actions and pave way for holding a referendum in the region to allow Kashmiris exercise their inalienable right, the right to self-determination.”

The spokesman of Jammu and Kashmir Employees Movement (JKEM) in a statement issued in Srinagar said, today the entire world is observing Human Right Day but the people of Kashmir are facing Indian brutalities. He condemned the continued cordon and search operations, killings and arrest of youth by Indian troops in the territory and urged world human rights bodies to take notice of the worst situation of IIOJK. He said, these atrocities are being committed to suppress the Kashmiris’ voice but freedom movements never get suppressed by these kinds of tyrannies.

The Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Gujjar Pahari Democratic Forum, Chaudhry Shaheen Iqbal, in a statement in Jammu said, every day of the Kashmiri people starts with arrests of innocent people and house searches. He said that draconian laws including Public Safety Act (PSA) and Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), imposed by India in IIOJK give unbridled powers to Indian troops to arrest innocent people and kill them in fake encounters. He said, Kashmiris will never tolerate killing spree and atrocities and will continue their protest against these undemocratic and inhuman acts.

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