Zardari condemns killing of innocent people in held Kashmir

Author: Staff Report

ISLAMABAD: Former president Asif Ali Zardari on Monday condemned the killing of innocent people in Indian-held Kashmir and called upon the international community to take serious notice of grave human rights violations in Kashmir.

“The former president was shocked at how the security forces in Kashmir resorted to indiscriminate force to punish people who were exercising their legitimate right to protest the killing of one of the leaders of demonstrators. This is arrogance in the extreme and reprehensible,” a statement said quoting the former president. The latest surge in protests in different parts of Kashmir should persuade the Indian authorities to look inwardly and ask themselves as to why the Kashmiris were up in arms against the New Delhi rule, he said. “Unfortunately, this is a question which few, if any, in India would be prepared to ask and fewer still prepared to listen an honest answer to it,” he added. Resolution of the Kashmir issue in accordance with the wishes of its people is the only viable way forward, he asserted. “The world must wake up to the murder of human rights in the held-Kashmir. It would be a great tragedy if the world overlooked the brutal use of force in Kashmir, Zardari said.

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