Pak wants UNHRC to send fact-finding team to Kashmir
July 21, 2016 20:22
Pakistan today said it has approached the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to send a fact-finding team to Kashmir to investigate the alleged human rights violations and recent killings of innocent people.
"We have requested UNHRC to send a fact-finding mission to Kashmir (in India) and probe recent killings of innocent Kashmiris," the Prime Minister's Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz said.
Briefing journalists at the Foreign Office in Islamabad, he urged the international community to take notice of the situation in Kashmir and extend its support to the Kashmiri people.
Aziz repeated the words of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif that Kashmir is not India's internal matter.
"Kashmir is not India's internal matter because it is recognised under the United Nations," he said and accused India of using "state-sponsored terrorism to justify illegal occupation over Kashmir".
"India will not be able to legitimise its occupation," he said.
To a question as to why Sharif is not using his 'personal relations' with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to defuse tension in Kashmir, Aziz said: "PM Sharif's personal ties with Modi are not state ties".
He further said: "It does not matter how many times Modi speaks to Sharif on phone in a day what matters is whether the former talks to the latter about the Kashmir issue."
When asked if Pakistan is considering severing diplomatic tie with India over the Kashmir violence, Aziz said: "Severing ties with India over the issue is no solution to the issue of Kashmir."
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