ISLAMABAD – The joint parliamentary session of Pakistan’s lawmakers passed a resolution condemning New Delhi’s “unilateral move” regarding Kashmir on Wednesday.
The session had been convened to debate the country’s future course of action in the wake of India’s decision to repeal Article 370 and 35A of the constitution which granted Kashmir, special status.
The resolution was presented by Kashmir Committee Chairman Syed Fakhar Imam and was passed unanimously.
The resolution condemns India’s “illegal, unilateral, reckless and coercive attempt to alter the disputed status of Indian occupied Kashmir as enshrined in the UNSC resolutions”.
Moreover, it condemns “other regressive measures” to change Kashmir’s demographic structure as well as “the recent surge in unprovoked firing and shelling on unarmed civilian population across the Line of Control and use of cluster bombs by Indian forces in Azad Jammu and Kashmir”.
Pakistani legislators, in the resolution, also condemned the “deployment of additional troops and atrocities in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir and other recent developments”.
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It emphasises that the “enforcement and legitimacy of resolutions of the UNSC can never be diluted by unilateral actions”.
The parliament also demanded India to stop the “brutalisation of the people of IOK through killings, torture, arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, mass blinding by pellet guns, and use of rape as an instrument of war”.
The resolution also stressed that the communication blackout in occupied Kashmir be lifted, the “prolonged curfew regime” be ended, and India “stop its ruthless cordon and search operations, immediately release the Kashmiri leadership and restore civil liberties and fundamental freedoms of the people of Jammu and Kashmir”.
It further demanded that “India honours its own commitment to the UN Security Council, Kashmiris and the international community”.
Pakistan’s National Security Committee also decided to downgrade ties with India besides suspension of bilateral trade over New Delhi’s haste decree on Monday.
