It has also documented alleged rights violations by Indian troops posted in the Muslim majority region, where anti-Indian sentiment is strong and many favor independence.
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Police in Indian Kashmir have detained a prominent human rights activist, Khurram Parvez, two days after he was prevented from leaving India to attend the ongoing session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. “In our view, travel bans preventing human rights defenders from accessing the United Nations are desperate efforts to isolate the people in Jammu and Kashmir, while ensuring impunity for the denial of basic human rights”, the group said in a statement.
“Pakistan has restrained itself from commenting on the unrelenting repression unleashed by the Indian State in many of its areas”, the Foreign Office said. Pakistan’s human rights record in PoK and Balochistan is deplorable. With this 80 persons have died in the violent clashes that broke out a day after Hizbul militant Burhan Wani was gunned down in an encounter with security forces in south Kashmir.
The US stance of non-interference in internal matters of Pakistan is primarily due to two reasons: to hopefully de-escalate the tension between the two neighboring nuclear powers (India and Pakistan) and to avoid another “middle-east like” situation where global jihadi organizations might take advantage of the internal unrest of Pakistan.
It also blamed Pakistan of targeting its own people. This is proof that indigenous people were killed in the “false pretext of infiltration”, she further told the Council. The Director-General of Police, Jammu and Kashmir, did not respond to text messages and telephone calls.
The UN Human Rights Committee, which oversees the implementation of the ICCPR, has said that restricting the movement of journalists and others seeking to travel overseas, including to attend human-rights-related meetings, violates their freedom of expression.
Stepping up its offensive against Pakistan on the Balochistan issue at the UNHRC, India had on Friday said Pakistan was a nation that practiced terrorism on its own people and the sufferings of the people of Balochistan were a telling testimony in this regard.
“Pakistan’s attempt seeking to mask its activities as though an outcome of domestic discontent, carries no credibility with the world”, Kumar said. “This would go a long way in bringing peace and stability to the region and beyond”, India added. India’s Ministry of External Affairs has denied the request.
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He said Pakistan was rightly supporting the just and indigenous struggle of the Kashmiris for freedom from Indian occupation.
