The macabre game of death, destruction and bloodbath has been going on unabated in Indian held territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Innocent, unarmed and defenseless people of the territory are being killed ruthlessly by the unbridled trigger-happy occupation forces every now and then. As the state sponsored violence has intensified manifold there seems no end to this reckless game of bloodshed and mayhem in the troubled region. On Sunday the valley witnessed yet another horrendous and inhuman face of Indian state-terrorism. At least seventeen Kashmiri youth were killed by Indian forces. Over 200 people were injured as a result of excessive use of bullets and pellets by the occupation forces.
Pakistan has taken strong notice of the killing spree in the disputed territory demanding the UNSC Secretary General to appoint a special representative for Jammu & Kashmir, where India, encouraged by the silence of the international community, continues to kill with impunity.
Condemning the gross violations of the basic human rights of innocent Kashmiris, the Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said that Indian attempts to label the legitimate Kashmir struggle terrorism cannot deter the valiant people of Jammu and Kashmir from their demand of exercising their right to self determination in accordance with the UN Security Council resolutions. He stressed the need for the international community to urge India to allow access to fact finding missions of the OHCHR and OIC IPHRC to Indian occupied Jammu & Kashmir.
Unfortunately the global community and United Nations in particular have miserably failed to prevent the systematic genocide of Kashmiris. Instead of holding India accountable for its crimes committed against the people of Kashmir, the world community has been watching the macabre game of bloodbath in Kashmir like that of bystander. The global community’s indifference towards the sufferings of Kashmiris have emboldened and encouraged New Delhi and its armed forces to target the Kashmiri population with greater ferocity. It goes without saying that the deadly conflict on one hand had consumed three consecutive generations of Kashmir while on the other the Indian state-sponsored-terrorism has torn apart the social fabric of the society besides inflicting massive economic, academic and other losses to Kashmiri nation. It is time that the international community must wake-up and see how a country that portrays itself as the largest democracy of the contemporary world is killing, maiming and blinding Kashmiris for demanding their birthright, which was guaranteed to them by no less an authority than the United Nations.
The other main reason behind the sufferings of Kashmir people is that the human rights violations being committed by Indian troops are, unfortunately, viewed through the prism of regional politics, which makes the situation even far worse for Kashmiris who have rendered huge sacrifices to achieve their birthright in line with the universally accepted principle of right to self-determination. As long as this mode of thinking persists at world level the people of Kashmir will perhaps continue to suffer and this deafening silence on human rights violations will continue to prevail.
Since Kashmir is an internationally reconginsed disputed territory it is imperative that the responsible powers from across the globe should discharge their moral, political and legal obligation of responding to the well recorded and widely reported incidents of massive violations of human rights in Indian Occupied Kashmir and make serious efforts to find a lasting solution to the dispute. However, there is a dire need that the government of Pakistan must take the lead and redouble its efforts to expose Indian state terrorism in Kashmir at world level.