- Pakistan condemns killing of unarmed protestors at hands of Indian police
- AJK Prime Minister Chaudhry Abdul Majeed reacts to deaths of youth in Srinagar
Pakistan has strongly condemned the brutal use of force by Indian security personnel against peaceful and unarmed protesters, which resulted in the killing of two young Kashmiri men and the arrest of APHC leaders Sunday.
“Pakistan is deeply concerned at the increase in systematic human rights violations in the Indian Occupied Kashmir,” FO spokesperson Tasneem Aslam said.
“The people and government of Pakistan extend our heartfelt sympathies and condolences to the families of the victims,” the spokesperson said.
The spokesperson said that Pakistan would continue to extend political, diplomatic and moral support to Kashmiris.
On Saturday during an anti-India demonstration against a government crackdown on separatist leaders in Kashmir, Indian police shot dead a 16-year-old boy. The incident took place on the outskirts of Srinagar as a separatist strike shut down the Himalayan region on the second day of the violent clashes, officials said.
The uncle of the boy said that the police first detained his nephew before shooting him at point-blank range in front of dozens of other protesters.
Police said they would investigate the uncle’s allegations while admitting that officers had breached normal protocol and said they regretted the incident.
Two Indian policemen have been arrested in the matter after a preliminary investigation revealed one had ordered the other to fire his rifle at stone-throwing protesters in the north-western village of Narbal on Saturday “in violation of laid down SOP (standard operating procedure).”
Locals and rights groups have long said that such investigations rarely yield results and are aimed only at calming public anger.
AJK PM CONDEMNS:
Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Chaudhry Abdul Majeed on Sunday vehemently condemned the recent killing of two Kashmiri youths in Srinagar by the Indian occupying troops.
Addressing various public representative delegations at the Prime Minister House on Sunday, Ch Majeed warned India that the hearts of the people of Jammu & Kashmir people could not be won through perpetuating the reign of state terrorism and violence in occupied Jammu & Kashmir. New Delhi, he said, shall have to grant the people their due right of self-determination.
He said that New Delhi has manoeuvred to change the demography of the area through the nefariously proposed plan of establishing exclusive abodes of the Kashmiri pundits (Hindus) in the Muslim-majority occupied Kashmir valley.“Indian government and its puppet administration in occupied Jammu and Kashmir will not succeeded in their malicious designs,” he said.