WASHINGTON: In yet another diplomatic achievement for Pakistan, UnitedStates Congress moved on Occupied Kashmir conflict over worrying reportsfrom all quarters.
At least three letters have been written by the top US lawmakers to theadministration over Occupied Kashmir.
“The reports we are receiving from Kashmir are harrowing with allegationsincluding forced disappearances, mass detentions, rape and sexual assault,and the targeted detention of political, economic and social leaders,” saysa letter signed by seven US lawmakers.
This is the third letter in less than a week that American congressmen andsenators have written to the US administration, underlining their concernon the situation in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
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In one of the letters, four key US Senators urged President Donald Trump toplay a constructive role in helping resolve Kashmir and other underlyingdisputes between Pakistan and India — a role that would require him tomediate between South Asia’s two nuclear powers.
In a letter to US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, Congresswoman Jayapaland Congressman James P. McGovern demanded that the international media andindependent human rights observers immediately be allowed into Jammu andKashmir to investigate reports of abuse.
