AJK President calls upon international community to bring India into Justice.

MIRPUR (AJK) -- The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan on Thursday welcomed the call of the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to India, forced to stop killing of innocent children and the arrests of the youth by its forces in occupied Kashmir.

"This is a good omen that at last the United Nations has broken its silence over the situation of the held territory. But instead of making calls, the international community should bring India into justice for its crimes against humanity in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir'.

He made these remarks while commenting on the latest report released by the UN Secretary General late Wednesday. The AJK president said that the report particularly speaks about the killing of eight innocent children, use of pellet guns to render the youth blind and the arrest of 68 children at the hands of Indian occupation forces in occupied territory.

AJK President, however, revealed that actually thousands of Kashmiri children have been martyred, hundreds of youth arrested and tortured in prisons and detention centres, and thousands of children were made orphan during the last 30 years.

He asserted a large number of children of nine to 13 years of age were among the 13,000 civilians the Indian Army has arrested during curfew and the lockdown in the different parts of the occupied territory since August 5, 2019. These children are still rotting in different prisons in northern India and occupied Kashmir, and they are not being released even after the outbreak of coronavirus, he added.

The AJK President called upon the UN Secretary General to constitute an international inquiry commission as per recommendations of the report of the Human Rights Commission. The commission, he asserted, should be given task examine the human rights trampling in IOJK and submit its report to the United Nations.

Sardar Masood Khan said that India is a country which remains unmoved in response to demands...

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