SLAMABAD: All Parties Hurriyat Conference Azad Jammu and Kashmir (APHC-AJK) chapter has urged the world to take cognizance of the plight of people of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) who have been deprived of all basic rights by India.
APHC-AJK senior leader Ghulam Muhammad Safi in a statement issued in Islamabad on the occasion of Human Right Day, said not even a single among 30 basic human rights enlisted in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights exists in occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
On the worsening situation of human rights in the occupied territory, he said Kashmiris are being mercilessly killed, tortured and humiliated for demanding their right to self-determination in a United Nations-recognised disputed territory.
Meanwhile, other APHC-AJK leaders, including, Gen Secretary Sheikh Abdul Mateen, Syed Faiz Naqshbandi, Altaf Hussain Wani, Imtiyaz Ahmed Wani, Syed Aijaz Rehmani, Shameen Shawl, Advocate Parvaiz Ahmed Shah, Zahid Safi, Mushtaq Ahmed Butt, Muhammad Sultan Butt, Zahid Ashraf, Javed Ahmed Butt, Gulshan Ahmad, Qazi Muhammad Imran, and Uzair Ahmad Ghazali in their statements urged the world powers to take notice of the plight of the Kashmir people.
They appealed to nations, organisations and people all over the world, who believe in the supremacy of human rights and human dignity, to support the Kashmiris in their just struggle for securing their inalienable right to self-determination.
Meanwhile, like the rest of the World Human Rights Day was also observed on Sunday on both sides of the Line of Control with the unanimous demand for early end of the ongoing massive human rights abuses, against innocent population in the disputed Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir as well as by similar aggressive forces in various other parts of the world including occupied Palestine.
Special ceremonies were held in various parts of AJK including in Mirpur division under the auspices of various social, political, Human Rights and public representative Organizations with the coordination of diverse segments of the civil society to observe the day.
Addressing these ceremonies, speakers emphasized the need of making collective efforts by the international community to ensure the complete protection of human rights all over the world particularly in those areas including the Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir state where people were being denied their due rights facing history’s worst human rights violations since the bleak day of August 5, 2019.
Speakers called for the measures by the international human rights outfits to move for ensuring the grant of basic human rights in the areas including in the strife-torn Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir state where the masses comprising all segments of the civil society were being denied their due human rights, including Kashmiris globally-acknowledged birth right to self determination.
Addressing separate rallies held here to mark the world Human Rights Day President Jammu Kashmir Union of Journalists Hafiz Maqsood, and others vehemently condemned the continued rather increased human rights abuses against the innocent Kashmiris.
Addressing the ceremony politician Ch. Muneer Hussain Advocate warmed India to immediately stop the barbarous activities in the occupied state and instead positively respond to resume the result oriented dialogue process with Pakistan in order to ensure the early peaceful resolution of all the outstanding differences especially the core issue of Kashmir, he added.
Meanwhile, Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Barrister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry has urged the international community to play its much-needed role to bring an immediate end to gross human rights violations being committed against Kashmiris by the Indian forces in the occupied territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
In his statement issued on the occasion of World Human Rights Day, the AJK president, while referring to the fast deteriorating political and human rights situation in the IOJK, said that it was high time that the world community should shun its duplicity and policy of indifference towards the plight of Kashmiris. He said that while world was celebrating Human Rights Day and 75 years of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of human rights today Kashmiris were reeling under India’s brutal suppression and belligerent occupation.
He said that there was a dire need for the human rights watchdogs should redouble their efforts to highlight the precarious situation in the troubled region and help stop bloodshed and violence in the region.
