ISLAMABAD: Indian troops, in their fresh act of state terrorism in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK), martyred three youngsters in Shopian district on Wednesday.
The troops martyred the youth during a cordon and search operation in the Sugan area of the district.
Meanwhile, Pakistan has said that India cannot suppress the legitimate struggle of the Kashmiri people for realization of their right to self-determination.
Addressing a committee of the United Nations General Assembly which deals with legal matters, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Munir Akram said that this right is inherent as it has been promised to the Kashmiri people by the Security Council, and by India and Pakistan.
He said that the Kashmiri struggle cannot be suppressed by India’s attempt to equate it with terrorism. The Pakistani envoy said that the global counter-terrorism endeavour has failed to address state terrorism.
Akram said that terrorism must be defeated comprehensively everywhere in all its manifestations and it cannot be addressed selectively. He said that the Indian state terrorism has intensified since August 5 last year, when New Delhi illegally annexed the disputed territory.
The Pakistani ambassador said that Indian government arrested all Kashmiri political leaders and activists, abducted and tortured 13,000 Kashmiri, clamped down on peaceful protests with pellet guns that blind even small children, and hundreds of Kashmiri youngsters were extra-judicially killed in fake encounters.
He said that Pakistan is the victim of attacks by terrorist groups financed and backed by India from across the border. Akram demanded that no one Indian soldier was punished for these crimes which are well recorded in UN, civil society and media reports. The Pakistani envoy demanded that such state terrorism must be punished.
