India denies rights violation in Kashmir
DISAGREEMENT Statement in response to UN report that has sought an international inquiry into the alleged abuses
A first-of-itskind UN report on alleged human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir provoked a strong reaction on Thursday from India, which described it as “fallacious, tendentious and motivated” and a violation of the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. In the Kashmir valley, a separatist leader welcomed the report.
The report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, titled ‘Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Kashmir: Developments in the Indian State of J-K from June 2016 to April 2018, and General Human Rights Concerns in Azad J-K and GilgitBaltistan’ sought an international enquiry into the alleged abuses.
“India rejects the report. It is fallacious, tendentious and motivated,” external affairs ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar
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said , questioning the intent behind the publication of such a report, which he described as a selective “compilation of largely unverified information. “
“It is overtly prejudiced and seeks to build a false narrative,” he said, adding that it violated “India’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
Moderate separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq shared a link of the UN report summary. “Welcome the first ever UN report on HR violations in #Kashmir recognition of the grave HR violations by the state taking place in Kashmir for past 30 years in particular and calling for inquiry into them was long overdue. UN has a moral obligation towards the people of Kashmir,” Mirwaiz wrote on Twitter.