ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Friday summoned the Indian in-charge d’affairs and conveyed the Pakistan government’s grave concern over the recent targeting of Muslims in the Indian state of Assam, where a brutal eviction drive has been launched against Muslim residents. .
Indian officials came under fire on Twitter after a video circulated on social media that showed police opened fire on locals in Assam, before a cameraperson attacked a man who fell to the ground as a result of the attack. had gone.
The video shows policemen firing indiscriminately at unseen targets behind a pile of trees. As soon as a man comes running towards them, they surround him, attack him with sticks and sticks. As the man falls to the ground – apparently caused by a gunshot – and lies motionless, a cameraperson runs towards him and repeatedly kicks and jumps at him.
At least two people are reported to have died in the incident in Sipajhar area of Assam’s Darrang district, where most of the residents are Muslims of Bengali origin.
Meanwhile, the Foreign Office in a statement condemned the non-judicial killing of three people in the Uri sector along the Line of Control in Indian-occupied Kashmir. It said the killings were evidence of India’s unabated state-of-terrorism against Kashmiris for decades.
“The so-called ‘anti-infiltration’ operation in Uri is the typical false flag operation by India that Pakistan has been warning the world about. This is India’s old ploy to defame Pakistan.
The FO said the massive human rights violations by India in the IIOJK (Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir) required an inquiry by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry, as recommended by the OHCHR in its Kashmir reports of 2018 and 2019.
Published in Dawn, September 25, 2021
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