ISLAMABAD: Secretary General of the All Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Advocate Pervaiz Shah Thursday criticized the international community’s apathy towards human rights violation and abuses in the Occupied Kashmir, sparking fresh appeals for international intervention in the region’s decades-long struggle for liberation and self-rule, as the death toll of innocent Kashmiris continues to mount, local media reported. Speaking to media, he emphasized the need for global pressure to secure the freedom of these detainees who he argued were being held unjustly for their political ideology.
He expressed deep disappointment and concern over the lack of global support for the Kashmiri people’s struggle for freedom and self-determination. He lamented that despite the serious human rights violations and brutalities committed by Indian troops in occupied Kashmir, the international community had failed to take decisive action leaving the people of Kashmir to suffer at the hands of occupation.
He also warned that their continued incarceration would only serve to further aggravate tensions in the region as well as undermine efforts to resolve the issue of Kashmir through peaceful means.
Advocate Pervaiz Shah also expressed confidence that the Kashmiri struggle for self-determination would ultimately succeed, despite New Delhi’s attempts to discredit and suppress it.
He said that India’s attempt to label the Kashmiri movement as “terrorism” at the global level had been thwarted by the international community’s growing recognition of the dispute’s political nature.
He lamented that the human cost of the Kashmir conflict had continued to mount with a staggering 800 Kashmiris martyred by Indian troops since 2019 alone. He strongly condemned the excessive and indiscriminate use of force by Indian forces, which had resulted in the loss of countless innocent lives, including children, women, and youth. He emphasized that these atrocities were a stark reminder of the urgent need for global intervention to stop the bloodshed and hold New Delhi accountable for its human rights abuses in the Occupied Kashmir.
