G20 meeting has no relevance for Kashmir: Farooq Rehmani

ISLAMABAD, April 12 (SABAH): ” It has always been noted and acknowledged by members of the world body that Kashmir is a disputed territory and its future has remain unsettled since, while the people of Jammu and Kashmir have been martyred in large numbers and thousands put behind bars during the last 32 years for rising peacefully against India’s terror, tyranny and human rights atrocities in and along the besieged region of the Kashmiris, so there’s is no sense in calling an international conference in the region, said Muhammad Farooq Rehmani, Chairman J&K People’s Freedom League and ex-Convener All Parties Hurriyat Conference to bring the disputed and volcanic situation of the region in focus.

Muhammad Farooq Rehmani said India was hoodwinking the world opinion, particularly the G20 members for its nefarious regional designs and trying to convey the message that all was well in the IIOJ&K. The reality, he emphasised was totally different and the inhabitants of the area were under surveillance and siege from all sides; all basic civil rights and fundamental freedoms remain strangulated there , thousands were in jails all across India, press and platform was taboo for the people since the day of its merger with India in 2019.

Muhammad Farooq Rehmani stated India not only violated bilateral agreements with Pakistan but it did not abide by the two CHR Commission reports of 2018 and 2019 on Jammu and Kashmir and continued to ridicule and flouting the international law, UN resolutions on Kashmir and other international obligations with regard to suggestions for the solution of the dispute. India was following a catch and kill policy and search operations in Kashmir were carried out to terrorise the majority of the population and to detain young men in as many numbers as possible. He said, nobody was safe and police intelligence agencies were chasing youth with ill intentions in their mind. Students and youth affiliated with political parties or not or civilians were being targeted in every part of the IIOJ&K.

Muhammad Farooq Rehmani appealed to the UN to take cognizance of the threatening situation of Kashmir and invoke its relevant resolutions and rules to give relief to the suppressed population of the Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir. At the same time he urged on the Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir (OiC), to call a conference on the latest developments, especially the G-20 meeting called by India in Srinagar, which was in total violation of the international resolutions as Kashmir was an internationally recognised dispute, he maintained.