ISLAMABAD – India is left red faced due Pakistan’s active diplomacy inUnited Nations over Kashmir
The UN has said that it was disturbed by the sustained attempts to distractand divert the focus away from the human rights violations in OccupiedKashmir.
“We are disappointed on New Delhi’s dismissal of grave human rightsviolations in IHK. The report issued by the Office of the United NationsHigh Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) had quoted Indian sourcesincluding their Parliament, Supreme Court and Ministry of External Affairs.
“India failed to address the very serious concerns raised by OHCHR inKashmir report about the grave human rights situation in IHK,” spokesman atthe Foreign Office said in early morning Tweets.
Earlier, the OHCHR had also found fault with the rejection of its report byIndia saying, “The report was developed through remote monitoring. Sincethe report was published, we have been deeply disappointed by the reactionof the Indian authorities, who dismissed the report as fallacious,tendentious and motivated without examining it and responding to the veryserious concerns about the human rights situation.”
Another allegation by India outrightly rejected by the OHCHR was related toan alleged Pakistani –Canadian citizen Zafar Bangash who New Delhi claimedhad been in touch with the UN High Commissioner when the UN report wasbeing compiled.
“This is totally untrue. The High Commissioner has never spoken withBangash, and we are not aware of receiving any information from him, letalone using it, although it is possible he sent an email or letter andreceived a polite acknowledgment, as is the case with thousands of lettersand emails sent to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights”.
Though Pakistan has for decades exposed the abuse of consistent humanrights in IHK and the neutral report from the UN had commented, “Thekilling of civilians between 2016 and 2018 raises the question of whethersecurity forces resorted to excessive use of force to respond toprotesters, some of whom were throwing rocks. International human rightsgroups have accused Indian security forces of using excessive force andfailing to adhere to applicable national and international standards on theuse of force.”
The use of Pellet guns by Indian security forces which blinded hundreds ofKashmiris including children and women was pointed out by the UN report,“One of the most dangerous weapons used against protesters during theunrest in 2016 was the pellet firing shotgun, which is a 12-gauge pumpaction shotgun that fires metal pellets. It was deployed by the CentralReserve Police Force and the Jammu and Kashmir Police against protesters,some of whom were throwing stones.”