Special Correspondent
NEW YORK: Pakistan has once again drawn the international community’s attention to the grave and persistent human rights violations being committed by Indian forces in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
Addressing the United Nations Security Council, Qaiser Sarwani, Counsellor at Pakistan’s Permanent Mission to the UN, strongly condemned India’s continued occupation of Jammu and Kashmir, calling it “illegal and in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions.”
Sarwani highlighted that Indian security forces continue to carry out extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, torture, and the discovery of mass graves across the occupied region.
He said that decades of military siege have left Kashmiris living under fear, their political voices silenced, and their basic freedoms stripped away.
“The world must not ignore the cries of the Kashmiri people,” Sarwani said, adding that “collective punishment, demographic changes, and suppression of dissent have become hallmarks of India’s rule in the occupied territory.”
He further noted that India’s human rights abuses are part of a wider pattern of religious intolerance and discrimination, with Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, and Dalits facing persecution under the rising tide of Hindutva extremism.
Sarwani called on the United Nations and the international community to demand accountability from India and to ensure implementation of Security Council resolutions that guarantee the right to self-determination for the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
He emphasized that, in contrast, Azad Jammu and Kashmir demonstrates Pakistan’s commitment to democratic governance, civil liberties, and respect for human rights.
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