ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday strongly condemned the unabated extra-judicial killings of Kashmiri youth in acts of state-terrorism perpetrated by Indian occupation forces in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJ&K).

The Indian occupation forces have martyred nine more Kashmiri youth during the last 24 hours in "fake" encounters and so-called "cordon-and-search" operations in Shopian area of IOJ&K, said Foreign Office spokesperson Aisha Farooqui, while strongly condemning these extra-judicial killings of the Kashmiri youth.

She said that several houses in the area were also destroyed and pellet guns and tear gas used against innocent Kashmiri men, women and children who took to the streets to protest against the Indian brutalities.

Infliction of such collective punishment to community is tantamount to crimes against humanity, she asserted. It is highly reprehensible that, while the world community is grappling with COVID-19 pandemic, India remains busy intensifying its brutalization of the Kashmiri people, she added.

"Extra-judicial killings of Kashmiri youth in "fake" encounters and "cordon-and-search" operations by the Indian occupation forces are being perpetrated with complete impunity, under the cover of draconian laws," she said.

In further inhuman practices, she added that the occupation forces neither reveal the identities of the martyrs nor hand over their mortal remains to the families for burial.

The "Hindutva" agenda of the RSS-BJP combine is targeting defenceless Kashmiris with mindless violence to break their will, she added.

Farooqui further asserted that India's efforts to subjugate the Kashmiri people through killings, torture, forced disappearances, incarcerations and brutalization have failed in the past and will not succeed in the future.

The Kashmiris' resolve to resist illegal Indian occupation and to secure their inalienable right to self-determination, as enshrined in the relevant United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions, continues to grow stronger, she added.

Urging the international community to take notice of the situations, she added that it is the responsibility of the world community to urgently act and protect the Kashmiris from the wanton killings and other brutalities being inflicted on them by the Indian occupation forces.

Pakistan will continue to call for holding India accountable for its crimes against the Kashmiri people, she added. A number of Kashmir youth have been killed over the past few days by the Indian forces during the so-called fake encounters.