JAMMU: "The stand of the Indian official delegation at the 43rd session of the ongoing UN Human Rights Council at Geneva has been outstanding and truthful of the factual human rights situation, particularly in the Jammu and Kashmir state", said Ashwani Kumar Chrungoo, BJP state Spokesperson on Kashmir Affairs and KP minority human rights defender in a statement today.
The main presentation made by Vikas Swaroop, Secretary West in the MEA, New Delhi and the Right to Reply option exercised by Vimarsh Aryan, First Secretary, MEA to Pakistan are completely in tune with the ground realities and reporting of the human rights situation in India and Pakistan. References made in context of the Jammu and Kashmir were also remindful of Pakistan's interference in the internal affairs of the Indian state. Terming India as the biggest victim of the cross border terrorism, Pakistan has been named as the epicenter of global terrorism by various leaders of the world.
Pakistan's attempts to bring death and destruction in Jammu and Kashmir and particularly in the Kashmir valley has been responsible for devastating its socio-political scenario for the last more than three decades. Though references to the mayhem and terror unleashed by the terror regime sponsored and supported by Pakistan in J&K could have included genocide of minorities in the Jammu and Kashmir that has rendered the Indegenous people of Kashmir, the Kashmiri Pandits, as refugees in their own land for the last three decades.
The abrogation of the provisions of Article 370 and Article 35A through the parliamentary action in August 2019 were fundamentally aimed at to restore human rights and the fundamental rights as enshrined in the constitution of India to the people of Jammu and Kashmir. It not only brought the women of the state at par with the men but also gave long pending justice to a large number of people called West Pakistan refugees and the Dalits who are part and parcel of the social milieu of Jammu and Kashmir for the last several decades.
Chrungoo added, "It is a tragic situation that Pakistan has curbed the political rights and the civil liberties of the people of Gilgit, Baltistan and the other parts of the Pak-occupied Jammu & Kashmir and is engaged in spreading disinformation regarding Kashmir globally without any success. The recent visits of the foreign envoys and diplomats to Jammu and Kashmir and their statements about the situation therein should be an eye opener for the policy makers in Pakistan as well as the important bench comprising the UNHRC".
He said that the global human rights umbrella also needs to correct its position regarding India and the human rights scenario in the whole region of Jammu and Kashmir including the areas under illegal occupation of Pakistan. "The historical fact is that Kashmir was, is and will remain an integral part of India and this fact was reiterated and brought before the UNHRC in the most unambiguous manner".