Overview
- President Asif Ali Zardari urged the UN to recognise the 1947 Jammu killings as genocide and to hold India accountable for alleged efforts to alter the demographic makeup of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, citing international law and the Geneva Conventions.
- Zardari’s message referenced archival estimates that over 200,000 Muslims were killed and that more than half a million fled toward Sialkot, figures echoed across commentary that describes the events as one of the subcontinent’s worst massacres.
- Opinion pieces in Pakistani media characterise the 1947 violence as organised attacks by Dogra forces with support from RSS and allied militias, while noting varying death counts such as approximately 200,000 to 237,000 and large-scale displacement.
- Writers link the commemoration to post-2019 policy changes following the revocation of Article 370, highlighting new domicile rules, amended land laws and the 2022 delimitation order that UN experts warned could affect the region’s demographic composition.
- The coverage reports renewed calls for independent scrutiny and for adherence to UN Security Council Resolution 47’s plebiscite framework, while noting no new international recognition or concrete UN action has been announced.