Pakistan urges world community to prosecute Indian personnel for terrorism

NEW YORK: Pakistan has urged the world community to prosecute Indian civil and military personnel for the worst form of state terrorism perpetrated against the oppressed people of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

In a statement on the International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism, Pakistan's permanent representative to the United Nations Munir Akram said over 100,000 Kashmiris have lost their lives, 22,000 women widowed and molested and hundreds of thousands of children martyred by India.

The Pakistani envoy condemned India for imprisoning political leaders, abducting and torturing 13,000 Kashmiri youth, brutally suppressing peaceful protestors, inflicting collective punishments and killings in extrajudicial encounters.

"The international community should seek to prosecute the Indian civil and military personnel involved in the state terrorism, war crimes and crimes against humanity," he added. Ambassador Akram issued the statement on Friday as the United Nations marked the Day with a virtual commemoration.