GENEVA: Tehmina Janjua, Pakistan’s permanent representative to the United Nations (UN), told the Human Rights Council that the Indian forces are bludgeoning and brutalising innocent Kashmiris to force them to give up their struggle for self determination. She added that when this most fundamental right is denied, then all their other rights are trampled upon. While totally rejecting India’s absurd narrative that the situation in IHK is about terrorism, Ambassador Janjua pointed out that over the past two months alone, Kashmiri mothers have buried more than a hundred of their sons and daughters. Hundreds more have been blinded, and many others have been incapacitated for life. There is a general curfew over a major part of IHK with millions being deprived of access to even basic necessities. She underscored that in IHK, there is no right to peaceful assembly and association and no freedom of religion or expression. Instead, there is arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, extra-judicial killings and torture. This is what has happened in IHK. This is the daily experience of the Kashmiris. Only the intensity of their misery differs at different times; the repression and brutality they face are constant. Ambassador Janjua added that India should acknowledge that the only solution to IHK issue is a free, fair and impartial plebiscite that has been assured to the Kashmiris by UN Security Council resolutions.
