India should be held accountable for torture of Kashmiris: FM Qureshi

By Muhammad YaseenPublished On 31 Dec 2022

Foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Friday called on the global community to maintain the Indian authorities accountable to the torture of the Kashmiri people from the Indian security forces.

New Delhi had revoked the autonomy of Kashmir through a decree on August 5 trying to integrate the valley to the Indian country.an communications lockdown was enforced in the region in the aftermath of this order under siege setting the valley that was inhabited together with the motions of sailors restricted.

Protection from torture is a jus cogens international law norm prohibited in absolute terms by Convention Against Torture, Common Article 3 of Geneva Conventions and customary international humanitarian law. https://t.co/siuzjEEmel

— Shah Mahmood Qureshi (@SMQureshiPTI) August 30, 2019

Thousands have been arrested by Indian security forces because and allegations of torture and abuse have been trickling in throughout the media to the previous weeks. the BBC spoke to villagers from Indian-occupied Kashmir to set the validity of the reports amidst a disinformation effort by the Indian press to discredit them.

According to these locals reports, individuals are given electrical shocks and also are beaten tortured. the villagers revealed BBC correspondents the marks of the harms.the report by BBC further shows that physicians and health officials in IOK are wary of talking to journalists about those claims as the Indian government is using intimidation tactics. tens of thousands of soldiers are set up from the valley for this objective. over 3000 Kashmiri leaders spouses civil rights activists and other citizens are detained.