Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Newham MPs send letters of protest after shelling of civilian homes in Kashmir


Newham MPs Stephen Timms (East Ham) and Lyn Brown (West Ham) have signed a strongly worded letter to the British Foreign Secretary and the Indian High Commissioner about the shelling of homes in Kashmir apparently by Indian Army forces. Property belonging to one of my colleagues on Newham Council, Cllr Mushtaq Mughal and his family were destroyed and one of his relatives was injured. 

Obviously any attacks on civilians and their properties either side of the contested line of control in Kashmir should be strongly condemned. 

Lyn Brown MP has also laid the following questions in Parliament to the Foreign Secretary :-

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) people killed, (b) people wounded, (c) households displaced and (d) civilian buildings destroyed during recent shelling by forces of the Republic of India of areas within Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what representations he has made to his Indian counterpart on the recent shelling by its forces of areas within Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether there are established processes to enable compensation by the Republic of India to families whose homes have been destroyed by its forces' shelling of areas within Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

 To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make representations to his Indian counterpart on behalf of UK citizens who have family members whose homes have been destroyed by the shelling by Indian forces of areas within Pakistan-administered Kashmir.


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Were the photographs "before" or "after" the shelling?

John Gray said...

after the shelling