SRINAGAR: Posters and banners with Pakistani flags surfaced in Srinagar and other areas of the territory. The posters were hoisted by APHC, Warseen-e-Shuhada-e-Jammu and Kashmir, and Jammu and.
Unending persecution
February 5, 2021
Since the launch of the freedom struggle in 1989, the people of Indian-occupied Kashmir have been subjected to ruthless oppression by the Indian security forces to subdue their movement.
The history of oppression is replete with incidents of a horrendous nature, with the Indian security forces exhibiting extreme brutality. In this regard, the killing of 55 Kashmiris on January 21, 1990 in Srinagar – who were protesting against the rape of Kashmiri women by personnel of the Indian security forces – constitutes an act of ultimate bestiality.
International human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, have been regularly compiling reports about these killings and human rights abuses by the Indian security forces. According to these reports, the Indian security forces during the period from January 1989 to December 2020 have killed 95,723 Kashmiris, arrested 161,330 civilians, demolished 110,383 houses, widowed 22,922 women a
Prime Minister Imran Khan and President Arif Alvi, in their separate message on the occasion of Kashmir Solidarity Day, urged the international community to hold India accountable for its crimes against humanity in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJ&K).
In this file photo, Foreign Office spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri addresses the media at a weekly press briefing. DawnNewsTV/File
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and India on Thursday put onus of creating conducive environment for normalisation of relations and meaningful engagement on each other.
Foreign Office spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri, at the weekly media briefing, said: “The onus is on India to create enabling environment for meaningful engagement.”
Indian External Affairs Ministry spokesman Anurag Srivastava at the media briefing in Delhi said: “The onus is on Pakistan for creating such an environment.”
This comes against the backdrop of comments by Army Chief Gen Qamar Bajwa at a graduation ceremony at PAF Academy in Risalpur earlier in the week.
Fazlur Rehman lashes out at PTI govt over ‘Kashmir sell out’
National
February 4, 2021
TAKHTBHAI: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman on Wednesday alleged that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-led government had sold out Occupied Jammu and Kashmir to India but now shedding crocodile tears to deceive the nation.
“The government has sold out Kashmir to India and established clandestine relations with Israel,” he said this during a meeting with a delegation of JUI, Mardan chapter, in Peshawar on Wednesday. The delegation, which called on him, was led by JUI district chief Maulana Muhammad Qasim.
The Maulana said Prime Minister Imran Khan had rejoiced and congratulated his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, on the landslide electoral victory for his Hindu nationalist party. He said the government had made life miserable for the poor by hiking oil, electricity and gas prices every fortnight.