By Mashal Khan

ISLAMABAD (TSAT) - Pakistan on Thursday said that the UN can deploy protection force to save civilians in the Indian administered Kashmir after the OIC resolution. 

During a weekly press briefing, Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokesman Asim Iftikhar Ahmad said the OIC Secretary-General and the Secretariate will take all such resolutions with concerned organizations. 

  “Currently the UN engagement in Jammu and Kashmir is through the observer mission – UNMOGIP, the military observers whose mandate is primarily observing the ceasefire along the Line of Control,” Ahmad said.

“But there are serious questions about the human rights situation, the crimes being committed, the humanitarian situation and violations of international humanitarian law in IIOJK it being an occupied territory.

 “We believe the United Nations should consider this seriously and take action to address these issues, through active monitoring and other means,” he added.

He added that UN can deploy the protection force as there are other examples exist of UN Protection Force with similar mandates.

On Wednesday, the OIC Foreign Ministers in its unanimous resolution strongly condemned the human rights violations and war crimes committed by Indian forces in Kashmir and requested the UNSC to deploy a protection force in the disputed valley to protect civilians. 

“Requests the United Nations Security Council to actively monitor the crimes against humanity being committed by India, the Occupying Power in the IIOJK, and take concrete and practical steps for the protection of Kashmiri civilians, including through the deployment of a United Nations Protection Force in the Illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir,” said the OIC CFM in its resolution. 

According to the OIC, since 1989, around100,000 Kashmiris have been “martyred”, more than 23,000 women have been widowed and 108,000 children orphaned.

 Over 12,000 Kashmiri women have been raped by Indian occupation forces, said the Muslim bloc in its resolution.