Blind beliefs: India rejects UN Human rights report on Kashmir

NEW DELHI: India has rejected the report of United Nations High Commission for Human Rights on the "human rights situation in Kashmir".The MEA (Ministry of external affairs) rejected the report and commented, "it is fallacious, tendentious and motivated. We question the intent in bringing out the report."

"It is a selective compilation of largely motivated unverified information," the MEA later added. The United Nations in its first report on human rights regarding Kashmir, raised a conflict between both India and Pakistan for violation of rights in Jammu and Kashmir and that Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK). 

MEA said, "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 illegal and forcible occupation of a part of the Indian state through aggression."

The UN report forced Pakistan to end its "misuse” of anti-terror legislation to persecute peaceful activists and quash disagreement.

Indian and Pakistani security forces used extreme force on both sides of Kashmir, killing and wounding innocent civilians since 2016, the United Nations said on Thursday and called for an international inquiry into alleged violations.

The report said that India has been accusing Pakistan of training and arming militants and helping them infiltrate across the heavily militarised Line of Control (LoC) that separates the two sides in the region, a charge which was denied by Islamabad.

The UN report mainly focused on the allegedly  serious violations committed in Jammu and Kashmir from July 2016 to April 2018. Activists estimate that there was a mass killing of 145 civilians by security forces and up to 20 civilians were killed by armed groups in the same period, the UN report said.

“In responding to demonstrations that started in 2016, Indian security forces used excessive force that led to unlawful killings and a very high number of injuries,” the UN report said.