India's delimitation commission meant to disempower, disenfranchise Kashmiris: Kaira.

ISLAMABAD -- Prime Minister's Advisor on Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit Baltistan Qamar Zaman Kaira said the India's delimitation Commission was meant to disempower and disenfranchise Kashmiris.

He, in a message on the Exploitation Day, said three years ago on August 5, 2019, India undertook illegal and unilateral action to implement its sinister strategy aimed at changing the demographic composition of the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).

Advisor Kaira said to this end, millions of domicile certificates had been issued to non-Kashmiris. All these measures were in blatant violation of the United Nations Security Council resolutions and international law including the 4th Geneva Convention, he added.

He said India remained undeterred in its illegal measures in the IIOJK as the human rights situation in the IIOJK remained untenable after India's illegal and unilateral actions of August 5, 2019.

He said more than 650 Kashmiris had been embraced martyrdom since then, among which more than 130 were extra-judicially killed this year alone at the hands of the Indian occupation forces.

Martyring Kashmiri youth in fake encounters and cordon-and-search operations by the Indian occupation forces had become a matter of routine in the IIOJK, he said adding arbitrary detentions of Kashmiri youth also continued unabated and almost the entire Kashmiri political...