India imposing black laws in  IOK to justify atrocities: Sartaj

ISLAMABAD: Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz said that India had imposed black laws to give legal justification to its brutalities in Occupied Kashmir.

He said that severing diplomatic ties with India was not a solution to the Kashmir issue as it clogged the way to hold talks.

Talking to state-run radio, he said India had unleashed state terrorism to suppress the indigenous freedom struggle of Kashmiris.

Sartaj Aziz said, “We are exposing the real face of India to the international community about brutalities being perpetrated by the Indian forces on the innocent, unarmed civilian population of Kashmir.”

The adviser said, “Pakistan is only extending diplomatic, political, and moral support to the indigenous freedom movement of the Kashmiri People.”

Meanwhile, Pakistan has asked India to stop state terrorism in the Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

In a statement, Foreign Office Spokesman Nafees Zakaria said on Saturday that there was extreme pain and anguish among the people of Pakistan on the brutalities being committed against the unarmed and innocent Kashmiri people who are only exercising their right to peaceful protest.

He said that Pakistan categorically rejected the Indian claim that Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir is its integral part.

The spokesman said that India had denied the oppressed people of Occupied Kashmir their right to self-determination that its founding fathers had pledged at the august forum of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and was enshrined in its resolutions.

Nafees Zakaria said India claimed to be a democracy but had blocked all public speeches, mobile phones, internet, cable TV and print and social media. “Strict curfew remains in place in most parts of the Held Valley,” he said.

He said that India must permit the holding of a free, fair and impartial plebiscite, in accordance with UN Security Council resolutions, to ascertain the will of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.