Kashmiri delegation meets Special Rapporteur on development Mr. Saad Alfarargi
Geneva: Kashmiri delegation, while highlighting the Modi government’s multi-front onslaught against the Kashmiris have said that the apartheid regime was committing grave Human Rights violations in the name of development in the illegally occupied territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
During a meeting with UN Special Rapporteur on development, Mr. Saad Alfarargi here today, the visiting Kashmiri delegates, told him that the Indian government has been brazenly violating the international law in IoK. Seeking Mr. Alfarargi’s urgent attention towards the simmering situation in the held territory, they said that the Hindu-supremacist regime was depriving Kashmiris of their-old properties they had inherited from their fathers and forefathers. Referring to the newly introduced Land Revenue Act, they said hapless people were being rendered homeless under the guise of a new law.
They pointed out that houses of thousands of people have been razed to the ground in the name of a so-called anti-encroachment campaign. They said that the Modi government’s motive behind this house demolishing drive was to cripple Kashmiris economically and pave a way to settle the non-state subjects in the region.
Terming the move as a deep-rooted conspiracy to change the region’s demography, they said that on one hand Indian government was trying to reduce Kashmiris to second-class citizens in their own homeland, while on the other, the authorities at the helm of affairs were hell bent on changing the composition of the electoral college .
Changes in the electoral college, they said, were meant to mutate the government formation process in the region and minimize the majority community’s role in the decision-making process.
Regarding the illegal attachment and confiscation of public properties, they said that the land owned by members of divided families temporarily settled in Azad Kashmir was being transferred to the state revenue department.
Referring to the world community’s indifference towards the plight of Kashmiris, they regrettably noted that the international actors have slowly accepted the status quo which was depriving the Kashmiris of their right to self determination.
Speaking on the occasion, the Special Rapporteur on development, Mr. Saad Alfarargi said that there was a dire need to regroup numerous SRs on common issues.
Alfarargi was of the view that the Office of High commissioner should be continuously reminded of the importance and the release of the 3rd report on Kashmir.
Of those who were part of the delegation, they included Sardar Amjad Yousaf Khan , Mrs Shamim Shawl , Syed Faiz Naqashbandi, Advocate Parvez Shah, Dr. Shagufta Ashraf, Dr. Waleed Rasool, Dr. Saira Shah and Mrs Niyla Altaf Kanyi.
