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UNHRC: PoK activists condemn Pulwama, asks Pak to remove terror infra

A young Kashmiri villager looks at the remains of a house destroyed during a deadly gun battle between militants and security forces in Tral area of Pulwama district | AFP

Activists from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK), speaking at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Europe, called for Pakistan to dismantle terror infrastructure in the region.

Sardar Shaukat Ali, chairman of United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP), said, according to ANI, “Pakistan’s Army officials are now openly asking Kashmiris to stop using light weapons and go for suicide attacks. It is being openly preached by retired Army Generals. We love peaceful co-existence as our state is multi-cultural, multi-religious and multi-ethnic. If Pakistan is continuously promoting extremism and terrorism, our state will be divided into thousand pieces on the basis of sects because we have Christians, Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims”. He said that Pakistan was using religion to propagate terror and the civil society was suffering.

Meanwhile, Pakistan had said it will "soon" respond to a dossier handed over to it by India on "specific details" of involvement of the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) in the deadly Pulwama terror attack as also the presence of camps of the UN-proscribed terror outfit in the country.

"It's being evaluated and a response would be given soon," Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson Mohammad Faisal told reporters.

The JeM had taken the responsibility of the attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district on February 14, in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed. Tensions between India and Pakistan flared up after the attack.

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