Prime Minister Azad Kashmir Raja Farooq Haider and former Interior Minister and senior PPP leader Senator Rehman Malik have written separate letters to the United Nations calling for the release of Kashmiri leader Yasin Malik.
In the letter addressed to secretary general Ban Ki Moon, the prime minister of AJK requested the UN to take notice of illegal detention of Yasin Malik by Indian forces. The letter said that Malik was critically ill.
Yasin Malik’s wife Mishal Malik in interviews has been saying that the Indian Army had kept him in a narrow cubicle where he was denied access to medical treatment or drinking water.
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“The Indian Army has not let Yasin take his medicines or eat food for one and a half months now. He has not had a drop of water to drink since the last six days,” she said. She added that her husband had developed a stone in his kidney.
Former Interior Minister Senator Rehman Malik in his letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights drew his attention to the most recent aggression barbarism by Indian Forces against the innocent people of India occupied Kashmir and the arrest of Mohammad Yasin Malik, Chairman Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (Yasin), a group that stands for political struggle for resolution of Kashmir issue. He said Yasin Malik is languishing, in custody of the Indian Military, at Humhuma Joint Interrogation Centre, Srinagar.
Rehman Malik said that Yasin Malik, a political activist, has been shifted to the notorious Humhuma Joint Interrogation Center in Indian Administered Kashmir, where he is being inflicted with inhuman torture and solitary confinement, without access to basic medical care. He is a chronic patient of kidney disease and has a metallic valve in his heart, he pointed out.
He urged the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights intervene justly, and to persuade Indian Government in allowing his family to visit Yasin Malik, and to provide him the basic health facilities at the earliest, lest his life is lost due to insensitivity and highhandedness of the Indian Army in Kashmir.
He also urged him to send team of UN Human Rights Commission to meet Mohammad Yasin Malik that can inquire about his health and to make necessary arrangements for shifting him to any other country for proper medical treatment.
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