EU urged to help resolve Kashmir dispute

Srinagar, April 20 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front-R and Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society have stressed the European Union to put pressure on India to stop human rights violations in the occupied territory and to help resolve the 63 years old Kashmir dispute in accordance with the Kashmiris’ aspirations.

These views were expressed by Senior Vice Chairman of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front-R, Javed Ahmad Mir while talking to a delegation of European countries, which called on him in Srinagar.

He appealed the members of the delegation to inform the people of their respective countries about the massive human rights violations in occupied Kashmir by Indian troops and play due role in the amicable settlement of the decades old dispute. He also asked them to visit the jails and remote areas of the occupied territory to take stock of the ground situation.

On the other hand, a delegation of Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) comprising Pervez Imroz and Khurram Pervez, met the European delegation and apprised it of the stepped up Indian state terrorism in the territory. The JKCCS members deplored that the European Union had passed a resolution in July 2008 demanding impartial and transparent probe into the unnamed graves discover in occupied Kashmir but the Indian government was yet to start the probe.

They said that the activists of the Joint Association of Kashmiri Affected Families held protest sit-in for several times to know whereabouts of their relatives disappeared in custody but the occupation authorities neither provided information about the disappeared persons nor interrogations were conducted about the unnamed graves.

The European delegation included Lisa Valjento, Aslak Brun, Danny Anan and Andress Sjoberg.

Source: Kashmir Media Service.
Link: http://www.kmsnews.org/news/eu-urged-help-resolve-kashmir-dispute.