President, PM urge international action against human rights violations in Palestine

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President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif have urged the international community to take practical measures to end human rights violations in Palestine and India-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Radio Pakistan reports.

While observing International Human Rights Day, they strongly condemned the “ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Palestinian people by Israel in Gaza and other occupied Palestinian territories” and “atrocities being perpetuated by the Indian armed forces” in Jammu and Kashmir.

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