National Assembly passes resolution urging India to reverse illegal actions of August 5, 2019.

ISLAMABAD -- The National Assembly on Thursday passed a unanimous resolution calling upon the international community to ensure accountability of India's grave and persistent violations of human rights, war crimes being committed in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu Kashmir (IIOJK).

The resolution was moved by Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari that urged India to immediately halt and reverse unilateral and all illegal actions it had taken in IIOJK and fulfill its obligations under the relevant UNSC resolutions.

The House recalled the resolution of 6 August 2019 adopted unanimously by the Parliament of Pakistan and subsequent resolutions rejecting India's illegal, unilateral, reckless and coercive actions aimed at altering the internationally recognized disputed status of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).

Alarming situation in IIOJK is arising out of continued Indian occupation in violation of international law and UN Security Council resolutions.

The House expressed grave concern over the series of illegal measures that the Indian occupation forces had been taking to change the demographic composition of the occupied territories in stark violation of international law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention and the relevant resolutions of the UN Security Council.

It denounced the latest attempt at demographic engineering in IIOJK through a so-called 'Delimitation Commission' constituted in March 2020 in the occupied territory aimed at artificially altering the electoral strength of the Muslim majority in IIOJK.

Noting that the Commission's recommendations had been rejected by a cross section of political parties in IIOJK, the House reaffirmed Pakistan's complete support and solidarity with the Kashmiri people.

It rejected categorically the report of the so-called 'Delimitation Commission' that sought converting the Muslim majority of IIOJK into minority, and further marginalize, disenfranchise and disempower the Kashmiri population in IIOJK, and advance the political and electoral objectives of the BJP.

The House expressed grave concern that through the 'delimitation' exercise, India was making attempts to further its illegal actions of 5 August 2019 and subsequent measures all of which had been categorically rejected by Pakistan and the Kashmiri people.

The National Assembly recalled and reaffirmed that 'the Jammu and Kashmir is an internationally recognized dispute and a long-standing item on the agenda of the UN...