New Delhi | Congress Leader and former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor on Friday said that the Centre needs to point out if there were any inaccuracy in the UN report on Kashmir.
Speaking to media, Tharoor said that “UN Human Rights Commission has to do its job and we have to do ours. It would be wrong for us to pretend that the situation is absolutely normal in Kashmir. There have been issues and violence in Kashmir and perhaps also in response to human rights violations.”
“The government has to look into the report carefully. Wherever it is wrong, criticise it. Where there is substance, we ourselves need corrective measures in the interests of the people,” he added.
The United Nation Human Rights Office in its 49-page reports called for a probe into alleged human rights violations in Kashmir by both India and Pakistan.
In an Official statement, the Ministry of External Affairs termed the report as misleading and mischievous.”The report violates India’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. The entire state of Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India. Pakistan is in the illegal and forcible occupation of a part of the Indian state through aggression. We have repeatedly called upon Pakistan to vacate the occupied territories. The incorrect description of Indian territory in the report is mischievous, misleading and unacceptable. There are no entities such as “Azad Jammu and Kashmir” and “Gilgit-Baltistan,” the MEA said in a statement
The statement further added that “it is disturbing that those behind this report have chosen to describe internationally designated and UN-proscribed terrorist entities as “armed groups” and terrorists as “leaders”. This undermines the UN-led consensus on zero tolerance to terrorism.”
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