ANKARA: Speaker of the National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq forcefully highlighted the gross and systematic violations of human rights in the Indian Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (IOK), reiterated the UN Human Rights Commissioner\u2019s call for sending a Fact Finding mission to IOK, and pressed for enabling the Kashmiri people to exercise their fundamental rights including the inalienable right to choose their own future in accordance with the UN Security Council resolutions, said a press release issued by the Foreign Office on Tuesday.
\nThe Speaker was addressing the 36th Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Parliamentary Union of Organization of Islamic Conference (PUIC) in Ankara on Tuesday\/. The meeting\u2019s outcome document — “Ankara Declaration”– strongly reaffirmed the right to self-determination of the Kashmiri people.
\nIn his statement, Speaker Ayaz Sadiq blasted the Indian attempts to equate the legitimate struggle of the Kashmiri people for self-determination with terrorism, noting that these had been repeatedly and categorically rejected by the OIC Member States as well as by the international community. As part of his extensive expose on the brutalities being perpetrated against the Kashmiris by Indian Occupying forces, he highlighted the draconian “laws” that enable them to carry out such atrocities with complete impunity.
\nA moving documentary and pictorial slide-show were shown during the statement of the Speaker, vividly capturing the Indian state-terrorism in IOK, including the impact of pellet guns against the defenseless Kashmiris, particularly women and children; deaths and injuries caused by live ammunition fire at peaceful protestors; effect of torture; as well as discovery of mass graves in IOK. The documentary\u2019s crescendo was the ubiquitous chants of “Azadi”(freedom) by Kashmiri women in IOK that echoed in the meeting hall of the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
\nDVDs containing exhaustive material including a report, entitled \u2018Buried Evidence\u2019, by an Indian Occupied Kashmir based NGO, exposing Indian occupation forces\u2019 atrocities and India\u2019s blatant lies about cross-LoC infiltrations and fake encounters, as well as a documentary on mass graves in IOK were shared with the participants.
\nSpeaker Ayaz Sadiq highlighted that Indian atrocities and human rights violations had not only been condemned by the international community, and independent human rights watch-dogs, but also by numerous voices within India. He stressed that in its desperate attempts to divert attention from the strong indigenous Kashmiri uprising, India was resorting to highly provocative rhetoric and violations of the Line of Control (LoC), jeopardizing the peace and security of the entire region. He, however, made clear that the people of Pakistan would not countenance any aggression and remained ready to defend their sovereignty and territorial integrity at all costs.
\nThe Speaker thanked the OIC Secretary General for his unequivocal condemnation of the wide-spread atrocities being carried out by the Indian Occupation forces to quell the indigenous uprising of the Kashmiri people.
\nThe Executive Committee adopted the Ankara Declaration that, inter alia, reaffirmed support for the right to self-determination of the Kashmiri people, underscoring that the issue of Jammu & Kashmir remained the core dispute between Pakistan and India. The Declaration also called for the just resolution of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute, in accordance with the relevant UN Security Council resolutions that call for a free and impartial plebiscite conducted under the auspices of the UN.
\nThe Executive Committee adopted the agenda of the upcoming 12th PUIC Conference, to be held in Bamako, Mali. A new agenda-item proposed byPakistan, entitled “Ongoing Human Rights Violations in Indian Occupied Jammu & Kashmir” was included in the agenda of the upcoming Conference, in addition to the already existing item on the Situation in Jammu & Kashmir. Earlier, in his inaugural address, Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly Ismail Kahraman expressed support for the just and legitimate cause of Kashmir while speaking of the range of issues calling for urgent attention of the international community including Palestine and Cyprus.
\nThe uprising that was triggered by the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani by Indian forces on July 8 has left 110 people dead and several thousand injured, so far. More than 800 people sustained pellet injuries in their eyes with majority of them on the verge of losing eyesight partially or fully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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