Prime Minister Imran Khan Sunday appreciated role of the Amnesty International for highlighting at the international level, the recent incidents and gross human right violations in the Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJ&K). The prime minister was talking to Amnesty International Secretary General Kumi Naidoo, who called on him in New York, PM Office Media Wing in a press release said.

The Amnesty secretary general apprised the prime minister about the Indian government's hurdles in the working of human rights organization and their efforts to access people in the IOJ&K. Meanwhile, Farooq Kathwari, the founder of Kashmir Study Group (KSG), a non-government body devoted to developing ideas that can lead to a resolution of the decades-old Kashmir conflict, Saturday called on Prime Minister Imran Khan hours after his arrival in New York at the head of the Pakistan delegation to the 74th session of the UN General Assembly.

During the meeting, the prime minister urged Kathwari, an occupied Srinagar-born Kashmiri-American, to further highlight the grave situation resulting from India's illegal occupation of Jammu and Kashmir and its blatant human rights violations so as to expose the real face of Indian Prime Minister Narendr. MONITORING DESK ADDS: Prime Minister Imran Khan met with the United States special envoy for Afghan peace Zalmay Khalilzad.

According to Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Khalilzad shared with the premier "how far his negotiations with the Taliban had gone, the nature of the talks and what expectations he holds in the future". "So he presented his entire analysis of the US-Taliban talks," he added, as he briefed a press conference.

The foreign minister also spoke of the prime minister's meeting with US Senator Lindsay Graham, who he said was one of four senators who had written to US President Donald Trump to call to his attention the "worrying situation" in India-occupied Kashmir. "We thanked him for taking on the responsibility to raise his voice for the unarmed Kashmiris who are now in the 48th day of a day-and-night curfew imposed on them with their fundamental rights snatched away," said Qureshi. He added that the Pakistani delegation had requested Senator Graham to continue to raise his voice and told him that the US Congress can play an important role in this.