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Nawaz meets Ban Ki-moon, shows him pictures of injured Kashmiris

By Web Desk
September 22, 2016

NEW YORK: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday after his speech at the United Nations General Assembly and showed him pictures of injured Kashmiri civilians. 

The Pakistani Premier met with the UN Secretary General after addressing the United Nations General Assembly. During their meeting, PM Nawaz showed Ban Ki-moon showed him pictures of martyred and injured civilians who had suffered brutalities at the hands of Indian security forces in occupied Kashmir. Ban Ki-moon was upset and expressed his grief after watching the pictures. 

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif handed over evidence of Indians subjecting innocent Kashmiri civilians to brutalities and thanked the UN Secretary General for his statement with regard to Kashmir. 

PM Nawaz Sharif in his address called for the demilitarization of occupied Kashmir and called on world powers to rein in India's human rights violations in the held territory. He called on the UN to conduct an independent probe into the extrajudicial killings that had taken place in occupied Kashmir. 

"On behalf of the Kashmiri people; on behalf of the mothers, wives, sisters, and fathers of the innocent Kashmiri children, women and men who have been killed, blinded and injured; on behalf of the Pakistani nation, I demand an independent inquiry into the extra-judicial killings, and a UN fact finding mission to investigate brutalities perpetrated by the Indian occupying forces, so that those guilty of these atrocities are punished,” the prime minister had said.