ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif has said that Pakistan cannot observe silence over brutal killings of Kashmiris in the occupied valley by Indian forces, adding that martyrdom of at least 11 persons in five days should grip the world at its conscience.
The minister, in a statement given on Wednesday, said that Indian forces are committing the worst of human rights violations in Kashmir valley.
The foreign minister said that resolutions of United Nations (UN) give the people of Kashmir their right to self-determination.
He asserted that the federal government is playing an effective role to bring the world’s attention to the brutality unleashed by occupying forces.
He urged the world powers to end apathetic attitude towards state terrorism in Kashmir.
Asif said that India neither has a moral nor political case to defend illegal occupation of the valley for around seven decades.
He accused Narendra Modi-led government of India of avoiding dialogue over the issue.
He further recalled that former premier Nawaz Sharif had efficiently put forth the case of Kashmiri people in his United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) speech in 2016.
