OIC urged to share findings of its commission with UNHRC

Islamabad

Jammu and Kashmir Council for Human Rights (JKCHR) has said that Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission (IPHRC) visiting Pakistan and Azad Kashmir should share the atrocities findings with UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and other NGOs working in defending the human rights of the people of Indian occupied Kashmir, says a press release.

Dr. Syed Nazir Gilani, President of JKCHR has said that it is high time that IPHRC shares their findings of gross atrocities committed by Indian occupation forces on the defenceless men, women, elderly and children in the valley with UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, International Federation of Human Rights, World Society of Victimology and other proactive NGOs working for the protection and promotion of human rights and in advocating the right of self-determination of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.

JKCHR president said that it would be helpful to combine the findings of IPHRC with the findings of FIDH in 1994, WSV in 1995, regular inputs to UNHRC by JKCHR and present them to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, general assembly, the Security Council, European Union and Commonwealth for an urgent action.

Dr. Nazir Gilani said that it is high time that Indian refusal to allow a UNHRC and IPHRC delegation permission to examine the human rights situation in the Valley and check the veracity of war crimes being committed by Indian occupation forces, that the matter be addressed with immediate urgency and in the meantime a joint ‘remote monitoring system’ to keep a sharp vigil on the number, behaviour and location of Indian security forces is put in place.

President JKCHR has proposed that since India is hell bent to frustrate international examination of human rights situation in the Valley, IPHRC recommends to UN General Assembly and Security Council that as an immediate step a component of Human Rights Watch be added to the existing UNMOGIP stationed on either side of cease fire line along Kashmir border. In similar situations of State intransigence to keep out ‘watchful eye’ UN has added Human Rights Watch component to its Peace Keeping Missions.

JKCHR president added that IPHRC should take serious notice of the fact that a Hindu Indian soldier is engaged in a war with the native Muslim of Kashmir. Profiling Muslim youth, taking them out of circulation and killing them has turned into a religious duty of the Indian Hindu soldier. Every effort including a reference of International Criminal Court (ICC) is required to save the innocent Muslims from the killing instinct of the Indian Hindu soldier.

Dr. Nazir Gilani has said that JKCHR would liaise with IPHRC and make researched inputs, in the manner JKCHR has been making to UN Secretary General under ECOSOC Resolution 1996/31, released on a regular basis at the UN HRC sessions in Geneva.