Bukhari urges Pakistani community to highlight human rights abuses of besieged Kashmiris

NEW YORK, Sep 15 (APP):Special Assistant to the Prime Minister for Overseas Pakistanis Sayed Zulfiqar Abbas Bukhari has called on Pakistani community members to spare no effort in ensuring the success of the September 27 demonstration in front of the United Nations Building to protest against India’s illegal annexation of occupied Kashmir and to demand that the world body to implement its resolutions on the decades-old dispute.

Addressing a large gathering in Queens, a borough of New York City, he said that the people of occupied Kashmir were languishing under a punishing lockdown for over a month now with communications and internet connections cutoff, thousands of people arrested along with their political leaders.

“They are living under a siege … the disputed state has been turned into a prison,” Bukhari said, while urging members of the community, which included representatives from other Pakistani political parties and activists, to highlight the issue of gross violations of human rights of the Kashmiri people in their interaction with their fellow citizens and their lawmakers.