President demands India to lift ban on freedom of movement, expression in IoK

ISLAMABAD, Feb 5 (APP):President Dr Arif Alvi Tuesday demanded India to open its borders for the international human rights observers and media to visit the Indian Occupied Kashmir and report the ongoing worst kind of atrocities and oppression unleashed by the Indian forces against the innocent Kashmiris.
The President demanded that India should immediately release all the political prisoners in Occupied Jammu and Kashmir and allow the freedom of speech, besides lifting travel ban on all the Hurryiat leaders.

He was addressing a seminar titled “Kashmir Matters” organized by South Asian Strategic Stability Institute University (SASSI) in collaboration with Ministry of Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit Baltistan at the Aiwan-e-Sadr in connection with Kashmir Solidarity Day.
The President eulogizing the matchless indigenous freedom movement and the unprecedented sacrifices of the Kashmiris, further demanded India to immediately halt the inhuman and shameful use of pellet guns and withdraw draconian armed forces special act.
He said if India did not have anything to hide in IoK, then it should allow Kashmiris their right to self determination as promised by it under UN resolutions and ensure basic human rights of expression and speech.
Reiterating Pakistan’s principled stance on Kashmir issue, the President extended country’s moral, ethical, political and diplomatic support to the Kashmiri struggle for self determination as enshrined in the UN resolutions.
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Hussain Chaudhry, Minister for Kashmir Affairs Ali Amin Khan Gandapur, Minister for Defence Pervaiz Khattak, advisors, parliamentarians, Kashmiri leaders, and a large number of members of diplomatic corps attended the event.
The President called upon the United Nations to live up to its promise of holding plebiscite in the Indian occupied Kashmir and send a fact finding mission especially after the launch of its human rights report over the Indian atrocities.
The mission should probe the gross human rights violations of torture, indiscriminate killing of innocent Kashmiris, mass graves, rapes and use of pellet guns.