ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that as the world celebrates International Women’s Day on March 8, we would like to remember the strong women of Kashmir who have faced the brunt of Indian atrocities in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
In her weekly media briefing in Islamabad on Thursday, the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said that the Kashmiri women have endured widespread devastation and confronted obstacles that impede their access to essential needs and their capacity to lead a dignified life.
The Spokesperson said that the Kashmiri women widowed and orphaned because of fake encounters by Indian forces do not even get time to mourn for their dead husbands and fathers and are forced to become the sole breadwinners for their families.
Ambassador Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said that women heading households face additional difficulties in the society and face hurdles in finding respectable jobs. She added that women activists including Hurriyat leaders including Aasiya Andrabi, Naheeda Nasreen and Fehmeeda Sofi remain incarcerated in different jails of IIOJK and India.
The Spokesperson also said that the Kashmiri women deserve to live their lives as they choose and enjoy their rights and freedom including the right of peaceful assembly and freedom of expression.
“Pakistan will continue to extend political, diplomatic and moral support to our Kashmiri brothers and sisters for the just and peaceful settlement of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute in accordance with the UN Security Council Resolutions,” she reiterated.
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