RECORDER REPORT

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz President Shahbaz Sharif has welcomed the UN demand of international investigations into human rights abuses in the Indian occupied Kashmir.

In a statement with regard to the United Nations report on Indian atrocities against Kashmiris, Shahbaz supported the call for establishing a commission of inquiry into human rights violations by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights which urged India to repeal the draconian law Armed Forces Special Powers Act in the Indian occupied Kashmir.

The PML-N president said over 6,000 pellet-gun wounds and thousands of maimed Kahsmiris testify to India’s crimes against humanity.

Commenting over the assassination of Kashmiri journalist and Editor Rising Kashmir Shujaat Bukhari in occupied Srinagar, Shahbaz said Bukhari was martyred as he was serving his people with sincerity.

The PML-N President demanded an impartial investigation into Bukhari’s assassination to bring the perpetrators to justice.

“My prayers are with the bereaved family of Shujaat Bokhari who remained courageous in his writing.”