RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff General Qammar Javed Bajwa on Monday strongly condemned brutalities by Indian security forces in Occupied Kashmir.
According to a statement by the Inter Services Public Relations, the army chief said that Indian atrocities in Occupied Kashmir can never suppress the indigenous political struggle for self-determination.
Gen Bajwa also condemned the ceasefire violations along the Line of Control and Working Boundary targeting innocent civilians.
Condemnation day is being observed against killing of seventeen youth by Indian forces in Shopian and Islamabad districts of Occupied Kashmir.
The day aims to invite attention of the international community towards killing of innocent Kashmiris and Indian state terrorism.
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has also expressed deep shock and grief at the indiscriminate, and called upon international community to pressurise India to allow access to fact-finding missions to Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
“Indian atrocities in Occupied Kashmir can never suppress a just indigenous political struggle for self determination. Brutalities by Indian Security Forces against innocent Kashmiris in IOK and CFVs along LOC/WB targeting civilians are highly condemnable”, COAS.#KashmirBlackDay
— Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor (@OfficialDGISPR) April 2, 2018