NEW DELHI: India on Thursday rejected the UN report alleging human rightsviolations in Kashmir. Calling it “ fallacious, tendentious and motivated,”New Delhi questioned the intent behind bringing out a report with“selective compilation of largely unverified information.”

Earlier today, the United Nations released the first of its kind report onalleged human rights violations in both “Indian occupied Kashmir” andsought an international inquiry into these abuses.

In a strong reaction, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said thereport is “overtly prejudiced” and seeks to build a “false narrative”.

“The report violates India’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. Theentire state of Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India. Pakistan isin illegal and forcible occupation of a part of the Indian state throughaggression. We have repeatedly called upon Pakistan to vacate the occupiedterritories. The incorrect description of Indian territory in the report ismischievous, misleading and unacceptable. There are no entities such as’Azad Jammu and Kashmir’ and ‘Gilgit-Baltistan,’” said MEA.

Highlighting cross-border terrorism from across the border, the ministrysaid that the authors of the report have “conveniently ignored the patternof cross-border terrorism emanating from Pakistan and territories under itsillegal control.”

“Such malicious reports cannot undermine the will of the people and theGovernment of India to take all measures necessary to protect thesovereignty and territorial integrity of the country from cross borderterrorism,” it added.

In its report, the global human rights watch body asserted an “urgent need”to address the past and ongoing human rights violations and that “anyresolution to the political situation in Kashmir should entail a commitmentto ending the cycles of violence and accountability for past and currenthuman rights violations”.

The report also talked about killing of Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist BurhanWani by the Indian forces which triggered unprecedented protests in theValley during this period.

There has been documented evidence of these groups committing a wide rangeof human rights abuses, including kidnappings and killings of civilians andsexual violence, it added.