Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Saturday called the world community to put pressure on India to lift communication restrictions in the occupied Jammu and Kashmir to enable dissemination of information and ensure unfettered supply of daily items to the people of Kashmir.
Chairing a meeting at the Foreign Office through a video link, Qureshi said that the world was experiencing a global pandemic of coronavirus, but on the other hand, India was continuously violating human rights in the occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the UN in New York Munir Akram, Permanent representative of Pakistan to the UN in Geneva Khalil Hashmi, Foreign Secretary Sohail Mahmood and senior officials of the Foreign Office attended the meeting.
Referring to the latest development in the occupied valley, the foreign minister said that despite reports of cases of COVID-19 as well as deaths, restrictions on the movement of the people and communication remained in place in IOJ&K.
He appealed to the world community to come forward and raise the issue of the detained eight million Kashmiris in the held Kashmir, and the continued human rights abuses by the Indian troops.
Condemning the Indian "domicile law", he stressed that such steps were in violation of international law and should be stopped.
He described the latest controversial law as baseless and in complete violation of existing United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions and the international law.
The foreign minister said the amendment in the law of obtaining a domicile was actually an agenda of changing the population ratio, which India wanted to achieve since long.