LONDON (PNI) The campaign to press India to halt its war crimes and crimes against humanity in Indian Illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIoJK) is gaining momentum as a group of UK lawmakers have proposed a government backed Human rights and diplomats forum on the UN-designated disputed territory.
Urging Prime Minister Boris Johnson to use UK’s “special relations” with India to “ensure a peaceful solution” to Kashmir dispute, at least four lawmakers have proposed the UK government to “appoint a British human rights and diplomatic group to investigate the conditions and charges under which Kashmiri political prisoners are held.”
It has also urged the British government to press India to grant unhindered access to international human rights groups to IIoJK.
Kashmiri diaspora community across the UK and Europe, led by Tehreek-e-Kashmir UK, are holding mass demonstrations and corner meetings to seek information and immediate release of illegally abducted Kashmiri resistance leadership including Masarat Alam Bhat, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Shabir Ahmad Shah, Asiya Andrabi, Fehmeeda Sofi, Nahida Nasreen,Ayaz Akbar, Zafar Akbar Bhat, Altaf Fantosh, Dr Qasim Faktoo, Peer Saifullah, Mirajuddin Ghulam Muhammad Bhat , Mehraj Udin Kalwal , Shahid Yousaf, Mohmmad Yousaf Falahi and others.
India has illegally abducted the Kashmiri resistance leadership and pro-freedom activists and put them into prisons in IIoJK, and in India.
In this regard, British lawmakers including Imran Hussain, Khalid Mahmood, Tahir Ali and Mohammad Yasin, shot the letter to the UK premier seeking his immediate intervention.
The British lawmakers termed the recent fake trail and farce conviction of Kashmiri pro-freedom leader Yasin Malik as “politically motivated” and “yet another example of the widespread abrogation of the civil and human rights of the Kashmiri people.”
The letter said Indian fascist regime has been “rounding up, arresting and even executing” political opponents of Indian military occupation of Jammu and Kashmir.
In view of the terrible situation in IIoJK, the UK lawmakers proposed a “human rights and diplomatic” forum by British government to “investigate the conditions and charges under which Kashmiri political prisoners are held.”
The lawmakers also urged the appropriate British ministers to meet Human Rights Watch and UN Human Rights office in Geneva to discuss “how best to ensure the human rights of the Kashmir people are respected.”
The British lawmakers warned that continued political persecution of Kashmiri people “does not help us towards… just and peaceful solution” to the conflict in IIoJK.
Despite critical reports by the UNHRC on terrible situation in IIoJK and close to 20 resolutions and reports by the UN which grant right of self-determination to people of IIoJK, India has refused to allow Kashmiris to decide their future.
While Pakistan, time and again, has stood behind brave Kashmiris in their fight for freedom from military occupation by India, the international community has chose to remain silent for geo-political interests thus exposing their double standards on human dignity and freedom.
Lauding the British lawmakers for their role in seeking end to illegal occupation of IIoJK, Kashmir diaspora leader Fahim Kayani urged the diaspora community and their allies to press on their constituency representatives to highlight Kashmir in their parliaments and respective governments.
Kayani, president of Tehreek-e-Kashmir UK, said British lawmakers Afzal Khan and Lord Qurban Hussain raised the issue of illegal abduction of Kashmiri resistance leadership including Yasin Malik in the parliament which is “critical in pushing forward” the demand for a British forum on IIoJK.
“There is a massive campaign for release of Kashmiri political prisoners from the streets of the UK to the floor of British parliament,” said Kayani.
Kayani said the UK government backed human rights organization and diplomats forum on IIoJK as proposed by the UK lawmakers is a “welcome step.”
“This is encouraging for the beleaguered people of IIoJK as voices of conscience are yet alive and there is urgent need of international intervention in IIoJK to save its people from fascist India. military regime,” said the Kashmiri diaspora leader.
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