AJK President calls for imposition of sanctions against India.

MIRPUR (AJK) -- President, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), Sardar Masood Khan on Monday called upon the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to immediately impose due sanctions against India for the continual pre-planned genocide of innocent freedom-loving people by the Indian occupational forces in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJK).

'Kashmiris' screams must reach the multilateral chambers that take decisions on human security and the rights enshrined in the international laws and commitments', he said in a statement on the eve of the emergency virtual meeting of the OIC Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir held on Monday.

He also highlighted massive human rights abuses in IOJK on innocent Kashmiri people.

He thanked Secretary General, OIC, Dr. Yousef Al-Othaimeen, and Foreign Ministers of Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan and Niger for participation in this meeting and for support of the Kashmiris.

He also expressed his gratitude to OIC Special Envoy for his recent visit to Azad Kashmir and statements of the OIC's Human Rights Commision.

He also acknowledged support of OIC countries over their losses of precious lives during the Covid 19 pandemic.

'During the pandemic, while the rest of the world was silent, we are beholden to the OIC for condemning India's fascist steps to introduce new domicile rules that have fast-tracked a process to transform the Muslim-majority occupied Jammu and Kashmir into a Hindu state by settling non-native Hindus from all over India. This is a replication of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank. This is a revival of the Nazi Party's 1935 Nuremberg laws', he remarked.

'European Parliamentarians too have been active. Fifteen MEPs have written to the President of the European Commission and European Union's High Representative advising them to address the 'worst human rights violations' and 'intolerable suppression of freedom and fundamental rights' in the Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir in the past 73 years', he said.

He mentioned that United Nations Secretary General has recently asked Indian authorities to stop detaining and killing children in the IOJK.

Under the cover of Covid 19, every day dozens of young men were being killed by occupation forces in staged encounters. Floodgates for new Hindu settlers from India have been opened, while Kashmiris are running from pillar to post to prove that their homeland is theirs.

He said they were witnessing the biggest land grab of our times...