AJK President urges EU countries to take effective notice of worsening HR situation in IIOJK.

MIRPUR(AJK) -- Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Barrister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry has said that the international community, especially the European Union, should take notice of the fast deteriorating political and human rights situation in the Indian Occupied Kashmir.

He expressed these views in Brusssals on Wednesday while briefing the European Parliamentarians about the latest situation in the held territory.

Member European parliament Hannes Heide, Member Belgian Parliament Latifa Ait Baala, MP and the chairman of human rights committee Willy Fautre and other members of parliament were present on the occasion.

Speaking on the occasion the president said that the stepped up human rights violations merit urgent attention of the world community.

Referring to the discovery of anonymous mass graves in north western areas of Kashmir including Uri, he said that the European Parliament passed the Baroness Emma Nicholson's Report on Kashmir by an overwhelming majority. Similarly, he said that the United Nations Commission on Human Rights had also issued a scathing report on the violation of human rights by Indian forces in Occupied...

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