Pakistan PM Imran Khan condemns killing of 7 civilians in Kashmir by Indian security forces during firing on suspected mob

December 17, 2018:

On Sunday, Pakistan PM Imran Khan condemned the killing of seven civilians in Kashmir’s Pulwama and threatened to raise the issue at the UN.

On Saturday, seven civilians died when security forces opened fire at an unruly mob that thronged the site of an encounter in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district in which three terrorists and an army man were killed.

In Srinagar, the army urged people not to march towards the headquarters of its Chinar Corps on the call of separatists to protest the killing of the civilians.

Jammu & Kashmir unit of the BJP said the responsibility of such deaths lies with separatists and supporters of militants, including the mainstream political parties.

Khan took to Twitter to condemn the incident, saying only dialogue and not violence and killings will resolve this conflict.

He threatened to raise the Kashmir issue at the UN and said the country will demand that the UN Security Council fulfill its plebiscite commitment in Jammu & Kashmir.

Meanwhile, Pakistan’s Foreign Office condemned the incident and said that Jammu & Kashmir was an internationally recognised dispute, pending on the agenda of the UN Security Council and the dissociation of India from reality was alarming.

The Govt. and the people of Pakistan reaffirm their continued and resolute moral, diplomatic and political support to the people of Jammu & Kashmir in their struggle, it said.

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