Kashmir Digits

Pakistan’s government has presented a 131-page dossier accusing the Indian government of grave human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir.

Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Pakistan’s foreign minister, presented the dossier during a joint press conference in Pakistan’s capital city Islamabad, along with the Federal Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari and National Security Adviser to the Prime Minister of Pakistan Moeed Yusuf.

The foreign minister said the government has decided to compile it following the Indian government’s crackdown that followed the death of Kashmiri resistance leader Syed Ali Geelani, including charging members of his family under an anti-terror law for raising anti-India slogans and wrapping his body in the Pakistani flag.

“We decided that considering the situation there, and the kind of government’s thinking present there, we should play our role and unveil the real face of this government [India] claiming to be the world’s biggest democracy before the world,” Qureshi said at the press conference, according to Pakistan’s oldest daily, Dawn.

The dossier’s three chapters include one on war crimes by the Indian army, a second on the local resistance movement, and a third on demographic change.

He added India should “put an end to demographic change”, lift a “military and digital siege” as well as release all political prisoners. He also called for the UN and other international organisations and observers, including journalists,  to be granted unhindered access. 

“The Indian state would have all the figures, they know who has disappeared, so countries and human rights organisations need to target the Indian government to get the data from them,” said Shireen Mazari, Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Human Rights.

Accuses India of harbouring ISIS.

 They also accused India of “hosting and running terror caps of ISIS in multiple cities at home.

The dossier claims that these “ISIS terror camps” operate in Gulmarg, Raipur, Jodhpur, Chakrata, Anupgarh and Bikaner.

Foreign office spokesperson Asim Iftikhar alleged that “by injecting these state-trained ISIS fighters, India may try to establish linkages of the freedom movement with Taliban international terrorism in order to malign the freedom struggle of Kashmiris,” The Times of India reported.

Elaborating on India’s alleged involvement in “harbouring” terrorism, NSA Yusf said that it’s part of New Delhi’s plans as a “counterweight” to China.

( Inputs from India Today, news18, TRT World)