Islamabad
Lawyers on Friday demanded that human rights violations in Kashmir be brought to the international court of justice.
The legal fraternity presented a memorandum of protest to the United Nation Office in the federal capital against the atrocities committed by India through state sponsored terrorism in Kashmir.
The memorandum was jointly presented to Vittorio Cammarota, the Director, United Nation Office, Islamabad, by a delegation of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) and Lahore High Court Bar Association and others led by Chaudhry Muhammad Aslam Ghuman, the SCBA Additional Secretary.
The legal fraternity told the UN Office that more than 60 peaceful participants of funeral services have been killed by the Indian security forces while over 5,000 innocent Kashmiris have been seriously injured by them.
The SCBA demanded that the Security Council of the united nation should pass a resolution through which the Indian government be immediately restrained from using fatal weapons against innocent Kashmirs
The UN was informed that due to continuous curfew, raids and arrests, the economic activity in Kashmir is at a grinding halt, and Kashmiris businesses are being deliberately destroyed, and due to continuous curfew, there is extreme shortfall of food throughout Indian Occupied Kashmir.
That in the presence of these circumstances immediate rescue measures are needed to be employed, including medical aid, doctors, ambulances.
It was demanded that office bearers of the bar associations and senior lawyers from Pakistan be allowed to visit the bar associations in the Indian Occupied Kashmir. It was also demanded that the visas of India be made easily available to the lawyers of Pakistan and their fool proof security is made by the Indian government.
