Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Thursday accused India of committing “war crimes” in Jammu and Kashmir, PTI reported. In his first address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Abbasi also urged the UN to appoint a special envoy to Kashmir.
Abbasi claimed that the struggle of people in Kashmir is being “brutally suppressed by India’s occupation forces,” and said that the dispute there must be solved “justly, peacefully and expeditiously”.
“As India is unwilling to resume the peace process with Pakistan, we call on the Security Council to fulfill its obligation to secure the implementation of its own resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir,” he said.
He claimed that there have been more than 600 ceasefire violations on the India-Pakistan border since January, and yet Pakistan has acted with restraint. “But if India does venture across the LoC [Line of Control], or acts upon its doctrine of limited war against Pakistan, it will evoke a strong and matching response,” he said.
Abbasi also sought an international investigation into alleged human rights violations in Kashmir. “Shotgun pellets have blinded and maimed thousands of Kashmiris, including children. These and other brutalities clearly constitute war crimes and violate the Geneva Conventions,” he charged.
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