We are heading for a human rights apocalypse in IOJ and K: AJK President.

MIRPUR -- Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan had said that the worst human rights violations in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJ and K) and the silence of the United Nations (UN) over it indicates that the world body had been side-lined in the dispute over Kashmir.

'The United Nations has been side-lined in the dispute over Kashmir (and as such) we are moving towards a human rights apocalypse in the Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJ and K).'

He made these remarks in an interview with the International news web portal, Byline Times. The President said that in its resolutions, the UN Security Council had emphatically stated that Kashmir was a disputed region, and its future was to be decided through a free and impartial plebiscite in accordance with the wishes of the Kashmiri people. But in violation of these resolutions, India had been denying right to self-determination to the Kashmiri people for the last seven decades, AJK Presidential Office told media on Wednesday.

Khan urged the OIC and sub-state members of the international community to stop India from implementing its next phase of Hindu settler colonial project in Muslim-majority Kashmir, in defiance of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions numbered 47, 51, 80, 96, 98, 122 and 126, which determined that the final status of the disputed territory 'would be made in accordance with the will of the people expressed through the democratic method of a free and impartial plebiscite conducted under the auspices of the United Nations (UN)'.

'For the past seven decades, India has defied these resolutions in denying eight million Kashmiri Muslims the right to determine their own future by maintaining military control over the territory while granting semi-political autonomy to the local population,' Khan said.

He added that on 5 August 2019, however, New Delhi suddenly revoked this symbolic status by signaling its intent to illegally annex the territory and launch its Hindu settler colonial project, and illegally incorporated the disputed territory into Indian union and announced to settle Hindus citizen there. Under this plan, India had issued domicile certificates to 25,000 Indian citizens during the last six weeks.

Explaining background of recent Indian actions, Khan said when Narendra Modi came to power in 2014, and when he was re-elected in 2019, he stated in his election platforms that he would rescind two articles in the Indian Constitution...