ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Munir Akram said on Tuesday the world body and its subordinate rights organizations must ask India to allow the reburial of a veteran Kashmiri leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani according to his family’s wishes.
Geelani, who opposed Indian rule in Kashmir, died at the age of 92 after protracted illness in Srinagar last week.
His body was taken away from his residence by the Indian security forces late at night who buried him in a local graveyard near his residence amid tight security and only allowed his close relatives to attend his funeral.
Geelani’s family and many of his supporters wanted to bury him at the Martyrs’ Graveyard in Srinagar’s old city.
Ambassador Akram told the UN “India’s occupation forces had entered Ali Geelani’s home and forcibly snatched his dead body, denied the last rites of a Muslim funeral and buried him in a non-descript place rather than the Cemetery of Martyrs.”
He said that Geelani’s family members were charged for draping his body in a Pakistani flag “as he had wished.”
Earlier, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan also criticized India for filing a case against the family of the late Kashmiri leader for raising anti-national slogans and wrapping his body in Pakistan’s flag.
Last week, the foreign office of Pakistan summoned India’s Charge d’ Affaires to protest New Delhi’s handling of Geelani’s body and funeral.
Pakistan demands UN bodies push India to allow Kashmiri leader Geelani’s reburial in Srinagar
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Pakistan demands UN bodies push India to allow Kashmiri leader Geelani’s reburial in Srinagar
- Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s family wanted to bury him at the Martyrs’ Graveyard in Srinagar’s old city
- After his death last week, Indian security forces took away Geelani’s body and buried him in a local graveyard amid tight security
Contaminated water kills 9 and hospitalizes 200 in India’s Indore city
- The drinking water in the Bhagirathpur area of the city was contaminated due to a leak, and a water test had confirmed the presence of bacteria in the pipeline
NEW DELHI: At least nine people have died and more than 200 have been hospitalized in the central Indian city of Indore after a diarrhea outbreak that officials said was linked to contaminated drinking water, according to a lawmaker and local health authorities.
Kailash Vijayvargiya, a lawmaker, said nine people had died in Indore.
Indore’s chief medical officer, Madhav Prasad Hasani, told Reuters by phone that drinking water in the Bhagirathpur area of the city was contaminated due to a leak, and a water test had confirmed the presence of bacteria in the pipeline.
“I cannot say anything on the death toll but yes over 200 people from the same locality are undergoing treatment at different hospitals of the city. The final report of the water sample collected from the affected area is awaited,” Hasani said.
Shravan Verma, the district administrative officer, said authorities had deployed teams of doctors for door-to-door screening and were distributing chlorine tablets to help purify water.
“We have found one leakage point that could have contaminated the water and that point has been fixed,” Verma said, adding that officials had screened 8,571 people and identified 338 with mild symptoms.
Indore, in Madhya Pradesh state, has been named India’s cleanest city and has topped the national cleanliness rankings for the past eight years.
