ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Foreign Office has said that the Hindu terrorist outfit Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has been stationing its activists and establishing its units in the Indian Occupied Kashmir managed by non-Kashmiri RSS activists.
In his weekly media briefing in Islamabad on Thursday, the Foreign Office Spokesman Nafees Zakaria said that the RSS had slaughtered more than half a million Kashmiri Muslims in November 1947 together with Dogra and Indian occupation forces. He said that their increasing presence in the Indian Occupied Kashmir is to terrorize Kashmiris and deter them from participating in the self-determination movement.
The Spokesman said that Human Rights situation in the Indian Occupied Kashmir has worsened during the last two weeks. He said that killing of innocent Kashmiris continues with the Human Rights defenders looking the other way.
Nafees Zakaria said that Young Kashmiris, particularly the students are the target of occupation forces and RSS. He said that over 200 people including students were arrested while 500 people including boys and girl students were injured when Indian occupation forces subjected defenseless Kashmiris to brute force against protesting students in Srinagar, Ganderbal, Budgam, Kulgam, Baramulla, Kupwara, Islamabad, Pulwama and Shopian, districts.
The Foreign Office Spokesman said that at least eight people were killed by Indian occupation forces in shoot out in the Occupied Kashmir.
“We condemn killing of Kashmiris. Unable to control the popular uprising with even a million occupation forces, India is desperately trying to discredit the indigenous Kashmiri movement by portraying it through propaganda as terrorism which the International Community has vehemently rejected,” he said.
The Spokesman further said that the Indian occupation forces have been condemned by the civil society members globally for banning social media. He said that they have also banned 34 TV Channels including Arabic and Urdu News Channels in the Indian Occupied Kashmir.
Moreover, he said that continued illegal detention of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) leader Masarat Alam Bhat, detention of Aasiya Andrabi, whose health is reportedly increasingly deteriorating and Fehmeeda Sofi, who were booked under the Lawless Law, Public Safety Act, and continued house detention of APHC Hurriyat Leaders Syed Ali Gilani and Shabbir Ahmad Shah is highly deplorable.
Nafees Zakaria said that on May 17, the unlawful authorities put Mirwaiz Umar Farooq under house arrest to prevent them from addressing the seminar in connection with the Martyrdom Week to pay homage to prominent martyred Hurriyet leaders (Mirwaiz Molvi Muhammad Farooq and Khawaja Abdul Ghani Lone and martyrs of Hawal Srinagar). He said that APHC Conference Leader Syed Ali Gilani was not allowed to see his doctors which is highly regrettable.
The Foreign Office Spokesman said that in line with its policy of extending moral, diplomatic and political support to Kashmiris, Pakistan has sent a letter from the Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz to the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres to apprise the latter on India plans of changing the demography in the Indian Occupied Kashmir and to seek the UN intervention.
Similarly, the Spokesman said, on foreign relations front, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has paid a highly successful visit to China for participation in the Road and Belt Forum during the current week.
The Spokesman said that on the sideline, he met a number of Countries’ leaders including the leadership of China, Turkey, Belarus, Ethiopia and interactive with many others including the Russian President.
