Geneva: Political activists from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit-Baltistan held a series of protests outside the offices of the UN Human Rights Council to demand the dismantling of terror camps and stop the exploitation of natural resources and land grabbing in the occupied territory.
The protests were jointly organised by United Kashmir People’s National Party (UPNP), Swiss Kashmir Human Rights and Jammu Kashmir International People’s Alliance (JKIPA) during the 48th Session of the Human Rights Council.
Exiled PoK leader Sardar Shaukat Ali Kashmiri said, ‘We are victims of Pakistan’s neo-fascism, we are victims of Pakistani terrorism, we are deprived by the Pakistani establishment, our culture is under harassment, our villages and our people are under threat and all those people who raise a voice in favour of human rights they are under threat and being targeted”.
Kashmiri said that not only the PoK and Gilgit-Baltistan are the victims of Pakistan’s atrocities but the Baloch and Sindhis are facing genocide at the hands of the Pakistani establishment.
“We are not frightened. We are fighting for our historical basic rights”, said Shaukat in his address at Broken Chair in front of the United Nations.
He strongly condemned Pakistan’s Hybrid regime’s Endeavour’s to silence all voices of dissent by introducing new draconian laws to curb basic civil laws and the right of expression.
In a memorandum submitted to the UN, the protesters showed concern that the media and the journalists in Pakistan, PoK and Gilgit Baltistan never had a situation so bad where people fear for the lives of their loved ones.