Protests in Pakistan and other events on the occasion of what it described as Black Day on Kashmir were led and supported by not just the likes of Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed and Syed Salahuddin but also Jaish-e-Muhammed chief Masood Azhar, an accused in the recent Pathankot airbase attack case.
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Stressing that the situation in Jammu and Kashmir would soon become normal, the home minister said, “Our neighbour is conspiring to disturb the situation in the Kashmir Valley in the name of the religion”.
The Kashmir Study Forum Sri Lanka along with Pakistani and Sri Lankan community organized a peaceful demonstration in front of United Nation Office at Bauddhaloka Mawatha in Sri Lanka to highlight the recent upsurge in extrajudicial killing and human rights violation in Indian Occupied Kashmir by the Indian forces. Around 50 people have been killed and more than 3,500 injured.
Changing the narrative of its discourse, India on Thursday lashed out at Pakistan for “inciting and supporting” terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir and asked it to vacate its illegal occupation of Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (POK). “The use of lethal force against innocent civilians protesting peacefully is deplorable”, he said. “India demands that Pakistan must fulfill the obligation to vacate its illegal occupation of PoK”.
Charging Pakistan for inciting violence in Jammu-Kashmir, India also accused Islamabad of misleading global community.
He said that Pakistan has written letters to the UN Secretary General, President of the Security Council, OIC Secretary General, High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Foreign Ministers of the OIC Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir (Azerbaijan, Niger, Saudi Arabia and Turkey) on the recent situation in Kashmir and called upon the global community to take appropriate steps to fulfil its commitments towards the people of Jammu and Kashmir under the UNSC resolutions.
In the statement, New Delhi alleged that those behind the protests were the same groups that had “protested the elimination of dreaded terrorists including Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Akhtar Mansour in Pakistan”.
The participants also urge the United Nations for immediate end of Indian laws such as Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (TADA), Jammu & Kashmir Public Safety Act 1978, The Armed Forces (Jammu & Kashmir) Special Power Act 1990, Jammu & Kashmir Disturbed Area Act 1990, Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) 2002 and Article 370.
To a question, Sartaj Aziz said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s relations with his Indian counterpart Modi were not state ties.
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Kashmiri protestors shout pro-freedom and anti-Indian slogans outside a hospital during a rally in Srinagar yesterday, against a state government order of the eviction of voluntary organisations from hospitals.
