Barrister Ali Zafar said that for the first time a ‘Universal Declaration of Human Rights of Kashmir’ had been discussed and agreed on by the government, political parties, civil society and lawyers of AJK and Pakistan.
Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan’s (SCBAP) President Barrister Syed Ali had taken up the issue of human rights violations in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) and headed the delegation of the Kashmir Committee which met with the prime minister and President of AJ&K, as well as, the bars associations, stated this while taking to media persons on Saturday.
Barrister Zafar shared the text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of Kashmir which had been sent to ambassador of US, UK High Commissioner, OIC, adviser to prime minister, Human Rights organisations of the world, as well as Pakistan, UN and bars associations of the world.
In the resolution UN Security Council had been called upon to take notice of human rights violations in Kashmir and to take appropriate actions to prevent further violations of international humanitarian law by Indian armed forces.
The resolution had also recommended that the UN Human Rights Council must include India in its Universal Periodic Review to investigate and advise UNSC on the large-scale violations of human rights in Jammu and Kashmir.
While the resolution calls upon Indian government to withdraw its military and make Jammu & Kashmir a ‘military free zone’, it simultaneously invites international community to intervene through legal and diplomatic means as mediators to ensure that all hostilities against the people of Kashmir must be be stopped.
He also called for publicising the text of this resolution to be read and displayed in schools and other educational institutions of Pakistan. The resolution had been sent to the Foreign Office for dissemination in all Pakistani embassies throughout the world.
Ali Zafar pointed out that the Indian Army had not allowed the people of Kashmir to offer jumma prayers in the historic Jamia Masjid of Srinagar for the 17th Friday which amounted to religious persecution.
Zafar said although the matter of Panama Leaks is important but we cannot forget the Kashmir issue.
