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APPAC urges to resolve Kashmir dispute through UN resolutions
US-based Pakistani activists call on Biden administration to form bipartisan committee
APP
March 02, 2021
Kashmiris run for cover as Indian security forces (not pictured) fire teargas shells during clashes, after scrapping of the special constitutional status for Kashmir by the Indian government, in Srinagar, September 6, 2019. REUTERS
NEW YORK:
A prominent political group of Pakistani-American activists has urged the United States government to push for the implementation of the United Nations resolutions that grant the Kashmiri people the right to decide their future through a UN-sponsored plebiscite.
The American Pakistani Public Affairs Committee (APPAC), in a resolution, also called on the Biden administration and the US Congress to form a bipartisan committee of congressional representatives to investigate the human rights violations in the disputed state and take steps to end the suffering of the people of
Dr Moeed Yusuf has dismissed Indian media reports, claiming that Thursday’s icebreaker between New Delhi and Islamabad is result of some backchannel diplomacy
Tehreek-e-Kashmir UK observes Kashmiri Women s Resistance Day
Conference aimed to awaken the world’s conscience on the century s most barbaric mass rape that took place in IIOJK
LONDON:
An online Conference on Kashmiri Women s Resistance Day was organised by Tehreek-e-Kashmir UK to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the tragic Kunan and Poshpora mass rape incident and to honour the victims.
The conference aimed to awaken the world’s conscience on the century s most barbaric mass rape, as the world has become a silent spectator of the heinous crimes of the Indian occupational forces, especially murder and rape, taking place in illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir.
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The UN’s concerns about IIOJK are valid
Kashmiris and international supporters must keep the global pressure on India through international fora like the UN
Fernand de Varennes and Ahmed Shaheed, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteurs on minority issues and freedom of religion or belief respectively, published their concerns about Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (IIOJK) last week. They criticised New Delhi’s August 2019 abrogation of Article 370 as “suggest[ing] the people of Jammu and Kashmir no longer have their own government and have lost power to legislate or amend laws in the region to ensure the protection of their rights as minorities.” The experts also warned that “The number of successful applicants for domicile certificates that appear to be from outside Jammu and Kashmir raises concerns that demographic change on a linguistic, religious and ethnic basis is already underway.” In response, India claimed that the report “calls int