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Kashmiri rights activist held for inciting violence

J&K Police have refused to specify the charge against him and it is unofficially said that he has been taken into Preventive Detention.

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“We are gravely concerned by the repeated abrogation of worldwide law and the disregard for India’s constitutional provisions, and by the unceasing targeting of civilians and the continued denial of their civil and political rights”, said the letter.

Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations at Geneva Tehmina Janjua has said that the global community has been fully apprised of the human rights violations and atrocities being committed by India against the innocent civilians of Kashmir in the Occupied Kashmir. We fear his detention under the draconian Public Safety Act, which has seen thousands of Kashmiri people suffered under years of detention without being charge-sheeted for having committed any crime.

Most have died in clashes between protesters and police and paramilitaries who have fired tear gas and pellet guns at demonstrators.

The puppet authorities continued to impose strict curfew and other restrictions across the Kashmir Valley on the 70th consecutive day, today.

Meanwhile, the death toll in the ongoing Kashmir Intifada rose to 103 with the succumbing of a youth, Basit Mukhtar, to his injuries at a hospital in Srinagar, yesterday.

He slammed the Indian government for showing arrogant behaviour by refusing the United Nations officials an unconditional access to visit Kashmir to probe the allegations of use of excessive force by its armed security forces against the unarmed civilians in the valley since July 8. Communication systems have been repeatedly shutdown; mobile Internet and pre-paid calls have been repeatedly banned, post-paid phone lines have been suspended for a number of days, and even newspapers have been shutdown for a couple of days.

India and Pakistan have fought two wars over Kashmir since independence in 1947.

Pervez, coordinator of the Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS), was scheduled to brief a U.N. Human Rights Council session on the situation, but immigration officials blocked him from boarding his flight at Delhi’s main airport.

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Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Tehmina Janjua impressed upon the UN Human Rights Council on Friday that Kashmiri people’s right to self-determination is not only enshrined in the foundational documents of the UN, including the UN Charter, but has also been unequivocally endorsed in the UNSC resolutions.

Khuram Parvez File