India committing grave human rights violation in Kashmir: Gandapur

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan Ali Amin Gandapur on Saturday said that Indian troops were committing grave human rights violations in Occupied Kashmir.

Talking to journalists, Ali Amin Gandapur urged the international community to play their due role in resolving the Kashmir issue. He asked the world leaders to back the Kashmiri people’s drive for self-determination.

He said the current UNHRC report exposed the tyrannical face of India and acknowledged the violations of human rights in the occupied valley. The minister said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government is making all efforts for the resolution of Kashmir issue.

Gandapur said that Pakistan wants peace with India but the desire should not be taken as weakness and added that resolution of Kashmir issue is the top priority of the PTI government.

He paid a rich tribute to the people of the occupied Kashmir saying that the brave and resilient Kashmiris have been continuously demonstrating against the brutal repression, incarceration, torture and extrajudicial killings by the illegal Indian occupation forces.

Earlier, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Saturday (today) had said that the provocative and negative statements from Indian side can jeopardize regional peace.

“Desire for peace should not be taken as our weakness, Pakistan will respond to any misadventure from the Indian side,” he vowed.