KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Friday said that Indian authorities have imposed the longest curfew in the history of Kashmir which was a sheer violation of human rights (HR) and a solid proof of their inhuman behaviour for international human rights bodies.
He stated this while talking to media after leading a rally to express solidarity with the people of Kashmir organised by Karachi commissioner from People’s Chowrangi to Mazar-e-Quid.
The rally was attended by provincial ministers, Saeed Ghani, Murtaza Wahab, Sindh IGP, provincial secretaries, civil society, human rights activists and others in a large number.
CM Murad said that the Indian government, to suppress people of Kashmir, had not only amended their constitution to deny the historical rights of people of the valley, but had turned the valley into a no-go-area where no person was allowed to enter for witnessing the plight of the people. “In the history, the curfew imposed in Kashmir is the longest ever imposed anywhere in the world,” he said.
The CM said that the conferences, walks and seminars to highlight the plight of people of Kashmir were good but they would have to make some tangible efforts on diplomatic forums to force India for restoring status of Kashmir, lift curfew from the valley and allow plebiscite as was decided by the United Nations.
“Setting aside all political difference, we as a nation would have to unite on a single agenda to liberate the people of Kashmir from the clutches of Indian government,” he said.
The chief minister said that the atrocities unleashed in the valley of Kashmir was a threat to the regional peace. “If the international community is interested in the peace in the region it would have to take notice of Modi government’s crimes in Kashmir and force him to restore the rights of suppressed people of Kashmir by withdrawing heavy police and armed forces from the valley,” he added.
CM Murad urged the international community to become the voice of the voiceless people of Kashmir.
He also assured people of Kashmir that the people of Pakistan were with them and would be fighting for their legitimate rights.
Curfew just to save lives of innocent people otherwise in danger get killed by terrorists.
Precautionary mesures to pervent occuring a law and order situation likewise in Sindh and Balochistan.
The Chief Minister of Sindh does not need to think much about the human rights of Kashmir, rather he should worry about the human rights of Shias and Baloch people in his own country, Pakistan. The Pakistani army is continuously violating the human rights of the Baloch people in Balochistan, committing abusive incidents such as rape of their women. The CM of Sindh should question the atrocities of the Pakistani Army. On the other hand Sunni fundamentalists are massacring the Shia Hazara people, they should be thought of. The whole world knows what the Pakistan Army and Sunni fundamentalists have done to Balochistan, does not the CM of Sindh know? Sindh’s CM did not get the news that the hundreds of houses of Balochs were destroyed in the failed test of Shaheen missile a few days ago? Therefore, it will be better for chief minister of Sindh to solve the issues of his home instead of putting a leg in the case of others.