Pakistan demands UN probe of India actions in Kashmir, fears ‘genocide’

Kashmiri students along with other students take part in a sit-in demonstration on September 10, 2019 against the Indian government’s move to revoke the special autonomy of the region. (AFP)
  • ‘The people of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir are apprehending the worst’

GENEVA: Pakistan’s foreign minister demanded Tuesday that the UN launch an investigation into the situation in Indian Kashmir, warning that a “genocide” could be looming in the Muslim-majority region.
“The people of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir are apprehending the worst,” Shah Mehmood Qureshi told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, adding that “I shudder to mention the word genocide here, but I must.”