KARACHI: The Pakistan India Peoples Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) along with Civil Society Organizations have condemned one full year of atrocities unleashed on innocent people of Jammu and Kashmir.
The BJP government of Modi and Amit Shah had reversed the special status of Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir by revoking article 370 and 35-A of the Indian Constitution on 5th August 2019, a joint statement by Pakistan’s civil society organization started here Tuesday.
By shutting down Internet connection Indian held Kashmir today suffers unprecedented repression and human rights abuses under heavy military presence.
The sinister intention of BJP government is ethnic cleansing of Kashmir Muslim population in order to change the demography of occupied Kashmir. The United Nations needs to urgently take action to save the situation.
“We the members of civil society and PIPFPD believes that Kashmir is a humanitarian problem and not territorial. We demand peaceful resolution of decades-old dispute. We iterate our position that of revocation of Article 370 which must come to an end and parties to the dispute should sit on the negotiation table. Repression is no solution while the negotiation is the way forward of resolving contemporary issues.”
Those who have also endorsed the statement included Karamat Ali, Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER); Ms. Anis Haroon, Women Action Forum; Ms. Uzma Noorani and Dr. Haroon Ahmed, members of PIPFPD; Dr. Tipu Sultan, Pakistan Peace Coalition; Ms. Mahnaz Rahman, Aurat Foundation; Nasir Mansoor, National Trade Union Federation; Habibuddin Junaidi, Peoples Labour Bureau; Liaquat Sahi, State Bank Democratic Workers Union; Saeed Baloch, Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum; Zahid Farooque, Urban Resource Centre.
