GENEVA: A Kashmiri leader alleged that the target killings of Shias in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) showed inability of the law enforcement agencies in the area as the state had failed to nab the killers.
Nasir Aziz Khan, spokesperson for the United Kashmir People’s National Party (UKPNP), participated in the 20th session of UN Human Rights Council on behalf of CIRAC an ECOSOC (NGO) and delivered a speech on Agenda Item 9.
He said that one’s religious faith or lack of one had become a reason to warrant execution and murder. “The killers do their job fearlessly and frequently,” he said and added that almost all the events of target killings remained untraced and the perpetrators of such organised crimes remained untouched.
He emphasised that these killings gave a clear picture of the lack of accountability and transparency in dealing with the organised crimes perpetrated by militant organisations backed by the intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
Nasir Aziz khan mentioned that in Azad Kashmir, the people were facing discrimination on the basis of ethnicity. The bureaucracy which constituted the basis of state affairs was directly under the control of establishment and all key portfolios such as Chief Secretary, Inspector General of Police, Director General Health and Finance Secretary were non-Kashmiris which otherwise were the right of the inhabitants of the land, he said.
He maintained that the political discrimination was practised in the form of constitutional restraints that barred the political opponents by demanding allegiance with Islamabad by signing the imposed condition of Kashmir’s accession. http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-2-118615-Sectarian-killings-issue-raised-in-UNHRC
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