NEW YORK – India was left red faced and reacted angrily to Pakistan’sreference to a UN report on Kashmir at the Security Council, India has saidthe “so called” report reflects “clear bias” and was not even found fit tobe considered by the members of the human rights body where it wassubmitted.

Pakistan raked up the issue of Jammu and Kashmir at a UN session on Monday,the third time it did so in as many weeks.

India said there has been yet another attempt by Pakistan to misuse the UNforum by referring to situations that are extraneous to the discussions.

Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN Maleeha Lodhi referred to theJune 14 report on Kashmir and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir by UN HighCommissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein during a SecurityCouncil debate on Children and Armed Conflict.

India’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Tanmaya Lal,in a scathing reply, said the “so-called” report about the Indian state ofJammu and Kashmir reflects the “clear bias of an official who was actingwithout any mandate whatsoever and relied on unverified sources ofinformation.”

He said the report “was not even found fit to be considered by themembership of the forum where it was submitted.”

India had rejected the human rights report by Zeid Ra’ad, who had calledfor a commission of inquiry by the Human Rights Council to conduct a anindependent, international investigation into allegations of human rightsviolations in Kashmir.