Pakistan draws attention of int'l community to the plight of Kashmiri women in IoJ and K.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan has drawn the attention of international community to the plight of Kashmiri women in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir who have been frequent targets of sexual violence by the occupation forces.

Expressing solidarity with Kashmiri Women on international day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, Foreign Office Spokesperson Aisha Farooqui in a statement on Friday said that Pakistan condemns India's use of rape as an instrument of state policy to subjugate the Kashmiri people in the occupied territory.

She said the world must wake up to these war tactics in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir in violation of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law as well as applicable UN Security Council Resolutions.

She said, in the past three decades, more than 11,000 women have been victims of rape or gang-rape at the hands of Indian occupation forces in occupied Jammu and Kashmir. We reaffirm our complete solidarity with these Kashmiri women and their families.

She said women in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir have frequently been targets of violence and aggression as a means to punishing their families and communities for standing up against illegal and forcible Indian occupation. She said abduction and molestation of young women during so-called "cordon-and-search operations" has been used as a punitive tool by Indian occupation forces to punish entire communities.

The Spokesperson...