Pakistani envoy in Washington urges US to pressure India to end it’s crackdown in Kashmir

NEW YORK, Aug 29 (APP):Pakistan’s Ambassador in Washington, Asad Majeed Khan, has urged the United States and the international community to “do more” to pressure India to end its militarized curfew over occupied Kashmir, saying that India’s prime minister has turned a vast section of the disputed region into “practically a concentration camp.”

Ambassador Khan, in a wide-ranging interview with reporters and editors at The Washington Times — a conservative newspaper —  lamented that millions of people inside Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir have been on lockdown without access to medicine or electricity, let alone telephones and internet, for nearly a month since the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi revoked the area’s special constitutional status.

“Thousands are being put in prison,” he was quoted as saying. “The world needs to be aware.”

Meanwhile, Raja Farooq Haider Khan, the prime minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, who is on a visit to Washington, sought to promote the same message. He told The Washington Times that he wanted “to give a wake-up call to the United States that [it] should intervene immediately.”