Pak Govt committing unprecedented atrocities on its people in many parts of Pakistan

• Various Pakistani organizations raise voice at the United Nations Human Rights Council

• Organizations from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Sindh provinces raise their voices

Geneva (Switzerland) – Various human rights organizations from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh provinces, raised their voices against the Pakistani Government at the ongoing United Nations Human Rights Council here. The 60th session, organized by the ‘Center for Human Rights and Peace Advocacy’, discussed the topic ‘Raising a voice for disappeared people in Pakistan, getting them justice and demanding international action’. Speakers said that people are abducted on a large scale in Pakistan, killed without any legal process or kept in prison.

6,500 Pashtun citizens missing

In this programme, the leader of the organization ‘Pashtun Tahafuz Movement’, Fazal-ur-Rehman Afridi, said that in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the activists of his organization and ordinary citizens are disappearing. They are being tortured and killed. Recently, they have registered 6,500 missing cases of the Pashtun community with the United Nations. Apart from this, there are also thousands of complaints from the Sindhi and Baloch people. The Pakistani Government is oppressing them by labeling as ‘terrorists’.

Firing on protesters in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir

At the conference, Nasir Aziz Khan, an exiled activist from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and spokesperson of the United Kashmir People’s National Party, said that on September 27^th, the Pakistani army opened indiscriminate fire on a peaceful protest by the Awami Action Committee. Many people were killed in this. More than 10 people have died since September 29^th. Hundreds of people are being arrested and tortured in prison. I will appeal to the United Nations to intervene for the safety of the citizens there.

Sindhi people raise their voice

In this meeting, Kamran Jatoi, an activist of the ‘World Sindhi Congress’, said that in Sindh, even those who raise their voice against the Government are forcibly imprisoned. He alleged that anti-terrorism Courts are being misused.

Editorial Perspective

Pakistan, which claims rights over Kashmir, should first take care of what’s happening within the country. Now India must create international pressure to separate Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh provinces and Balochistan from Pakistan, to give justice to the people of Pakistan.