Rehmani urges UN to take cognizance of Kashmiri detainees’ plight

ISLAMABAD, Nov 18 (NNI): Senior leader of All Parties Hurriyat Conference Azad Jammu and Kashmir (APHC-AJK) chapter, Muhammad Farooq Rehmani, has urged the United Nations and other international human rights organizations to take cognizance of the plight of illegally detained Kashmiri political leaders languishing in different jails of India and occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Muhammad Farooq Rehmani in a statement issued in Islamabad lamented that the detainees are being deprived of hygienic food and access to their lawyers to discuss their cases. He said during summer and winter they fell ill due to lack of healthcare and medical facilities. He said many Kashmiri political detainees are suffering from chronic diseases but the authorities out of their prejudices inflict misery and torture of worst kind on them. The APHC-AJK leader reminded the UN Secretary General that the oldest unresolved question of the right to self-determination has been degraded and forgotten to the extent that the Narendra Modi-led Indian government has been treating the people of Kashmir, especially the majority Muslim population, as India’s slaves. He said the Kashmiri Muslims have no meaning in the eyes of the Indian rulers and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Geneva Convention and even the UN Human Rights Commission’s reports on Jammu and Kashmir in 2018 and 2019 were meaningless for India. NNI