ISLAMABAD: Unique Assistant to Prime Minister on Human Rights & women Empowerment Mushaal Hussein Mullick Monday has expressed extreme difficulty over the deteriorating political and human rights situation in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
Whilst speakme to Pakistan television, Mushaal Hussein Mullick warned that brazen demographic change via India in Occupied Jammu and Kashmir is growing tensions that would push the area to a disastrous battle, including, “India is predicted to check in up to 2.five million new voters from Indians inside the contested Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu Kashmir (IIOJK)”.
In replying to a question, she regretted that the prisons inside the IIOJK jails have been still watching for simple facilities of drug treatments and lawyers, adding, that they have been disadvantaged of basic desires.
She additionally known as upon worldwide groups and human rights structures to hurry up their efforts and raise voices for the rights of harmless Kashmiri humans.
additionally, she also shared her own revel in of being centered at some stage in a adventure to Norway where she had faced sizeable harassment through an Indian national.
a complete of 248 humans were killed in multiple incidents of violence across Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) by using the Indian forces, according to an annual review report titled ‘Human Rights state of affairs in IIOJK released by way of legal forum for Kashmir (LFK).
The armed motion of India’s occupying forces against the local populace because of heightened army presence has resulted in the killing of eighty two indigenous freedom warring parties from January to December 2023, stated a press release.
according to the LFK annual document, January-December 2023 noticed a new trend of country repression and counterinsurgency operations within the struggle-trampled vicinity of IIOJK. at the ground, the violations of worldwide Human Rights law (IHRL) and worldwide Humanitarian regulation (IHL) led to appalling human tragedies. Indian occupying government and the occupying forces stationed in IIOJK have perpetrated a series of ‘Atrocity crimes’: Indian occupying forces endured in their repressive regulations and brush aside for international regulation and the precept of the proper of Self-determination. a complete of 260 Cordon and seek Operations (CASOs) were said with the aid of the local media which can be only a fraction of the whole seek Operations released by using the occupying forces.
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The report said that as a minimum 70 encounters took place at some point of which vandalism, and destruction of 138 civilian properties have been suggested. additionally, 171 times of internet shutdown in IIOJK have been reported. India’s notorious anti-terror research organizations country wide investigation organization (NIA) & country investigation organisation (SIA) have attached 2 hundred houses throughout IIOJK in the yr 2023. It similarly stated that Indian occupying government annihilate the essential voices of Kashmiris by using pervasive surveillance to screen their each day lives, violating the rights to freedom of expression, opinion, and privacy rights of Kashmiris.
to intensify regulations on social media users in IIOJK, police have been given loose get entry to to song bills of all Kashmiris in the call of tracking anti-India activities. Police claimed to have secured direct cooperation from social media giants, such as WhatsApp, X, Snapchat, Instagram, Telegram, and TikTok, it brought.
LFK reports the torture and custodial death case at Dhera Ki Gali and Buffliaz inside the Poonch-Rajouri belt of IIOJK. in keeping with the families, the 3 men – Mohammad Showkat, 22, Safeer Hussain, 45, and Shabir Ahmad, 32, had been detained by means of IOF at the hilly Topa Pir village in Poonch district on December 22, 2023. The torture sufferers and the families of the deceased testified that earlier than the custodial death of three civilian’s Indian navy stripped them naked and used chilli powder over the touchy frame elements to inflict more physical damage.
The report said that India has extended its efforts to dominate every method of dissent and seize residences of local inhabitants, paving the way for outsiders to settle within the area. within the name of “retrieving state land”, the occupational authorities and their auxiliaries seized over 178005.213 acres in Kashmir region and 25159.56 acres in Jammu as alleged “encroached” by using the residents.
In its annual file, LFK referred to as the worldwide community to take awareness of the proof provided in this file. all of the cases of extrajudicial killing, arbitrary detention, and torture of civilians, the curbs on freedom of speech, freedom of the clicking, and freedom of faith, the demographic modifications, and all other measures aimed at the ethnic cleansing of Kashmir Muslims have to now not go unheeded.
It said On eleven December 2023, the excellent court of India (SCI) reported the verdict of the sixteen hearings referring to the petitions difficult the August five, 2019 unilateral selection of the Indian parliament to abrogate the semi-autonomous popularity of UN-recognized disputed territory. The 476-web page judgment upheld the validity of the CO 273 bifurcating the erstwhile nation into Union Territories – Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh. The mainstream political parties, Kashmiri civil society and famend Indian jurists inclusive of former SCI judges criticized the verdict of the five-judge Constitutional Bench pointing out that the courtroom has misinterpreted the constitutional framework which includes the federal shape and distorted the criminal records of Jammu and Kashmir.
LFK additionally condemns India’s try and maintain the G20 tourism assembly in IIOJK, portraying a facade of normalcy and aimed at whitewashing the direct abuses perpetrated by means of IOF in opposition to the civilian populace.
