India also said the observance of “Kashmir’s Accession to Pakistan Day” “exposes Pakistan’s longing for the territory of Jammu and Kashmir”. The government asked Pakistan not to mislead the worldwide community and Kashmiris through “meaningless exercises such as the so-called elections today in PoK which Pakistan ironically Azad’ (free)”.
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Indian forces feared fresh trouble after Pakistan called for observing a “black day” in the country to express solidarity with “Kashmiris who are facing atrocities at the hands of Indian forces”.
“India alleges the freedom movement in Kashmir as terrorist activity, but no one is supporting its contention”.
Lashing out at Pakistan, Singh said: “They broke off from India in the name of religion, but today they are broken in two parts because of terrorism”.
“We have requested the UNHRC to send a fact-finding mission to India-held Kashmir and probe the recent killings of innocent Kashmiris”, Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz told the Senate while giving a policy statement over an adjournment motion moved by opposition and ruling senators.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday squarely blamed Pakistan for the present unrest in Jammu and Kashmir and also said the government will set up a panel to find an alternative to pellet guns used by security forces to control protesters in the Valley. “India demands that Pakistan must fulfil the obligation to vacate its illegal occupation of POK”, said the official statement.
Authorities lifted a three-day publication ban in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir, but newspapers delayed print runs Tuesday due to uncertainties about the media restrictions imposed during massive anti-India protests that left dozens of people dead and hundreds injured.
Thus, Pakistan gets little satisfaction, but that has never deterred Nawaz Sharif and the Pakistani establishment, both military and civilian, from trying.
“We have never seen injuries on this scale”, and even within India, there are strong voices over the brutal use of force in IoK and the uprising has been referred to as indigenous. “If there is terrorism in India, it is Pakistan-sponsored”, the home minister said.
The J&K government yesterday ordered its employees working in the summer capital Srinagar to report to their duties, saying their identity cards will be treated as curfew passes, while as schools in four districts, which have been “relatively calm”, were also directed to resume work.
The Kashmiris in IOK are facing the worst form of state terrorism at the hands of Indian occupation forces.
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“He has appealed the people to maintain peace and help the security forces serve them better”, a defence official said here.
