ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday strongly condemned the extra-judicial killing of four youngsters in Pulwama and Srinagar districts of the Indian-occupied Kashmir during staged cordon-and-search operations, ARY NEWS reported quoting Foreign Office.
In a statement from the Foreign Office, Spokesman Asim Iftikhar Ahmad said that it was highly regrettable that cold-blooded targeting of Kashmiri youth has become a norm in the occupied territory.
“More than 621 Kashmiris have been martyred by the Indian occupation forces since India’s illegal and unilateral actions of 5 August 2019,” he said and added that this year alone, 98 extra-judicial killings of Kashmiris have been recorded.
He said that India must realize that layered lockdowns, brutal military sieges, and use of indiscriminate force will not dampen the resolve of Kashmiris struggling against Indian illegal occupation.
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“Pakistan has consistently been drawing the attention of the international community towards the atrocities being perpetrated by the Indian occupation forces to perpetuate its illegal occupation of IIOJK in complete defiance of international humanitarian law.”
The foreign office spokesman reiterated its call for investigation of extra-judicial killings in IIOJK by establishing independent Commission of Inquiry as recommended by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in its Kashmir reports of 2018 and 2019.
