India detains leading Kashmiri human rights activist

Under the Right to Reply, India countered Pakistan for raising the issue of alleged human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir, terming its “unsolicited and unwarranted comments” as “factually incorrect and bear no relationship to reality”.

Global rights groups have urged Indian authorities to immediately release a prominent rights activist in India’s troubled Kashmir region, who was arrested a day after ‎he ‎was ‎barred from leaving India to travel to Geneva to participate in a session of the United ‎Nations’ ‎Human ‎Rights Council.

She further added that the people of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir have been struggling for over six decades to realize this right to determine their own future.

Most people in the Indian-controlled portion favor independence or a merger with Pakistan. Pakistan’s human rights record in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir and Balochistan is deplorable.

Thousands of people have been protesting against Indian rule in Kashmir nearly daily since the killing of a young separatist commander in a gun battle with Indian soldiers on July 8.

After meeting Kashmiri leaders in Muzaffarabad on Friday, Sharif said: “I would once again highlight the Kashmir issue in my address at the United Nations General Assembly session and also in the bilateral meetings with world leaders during the upcoming visit to the UN”. He said that he was not given any official written explanation for why he was not allowed to travel, but was verbally informed that it was on the instruction of India’s Intelligence Bureau.

“The sufferings of the people of Balochistan are a telling testimony in this regard”. AFAD also condemned India’s decision to bar Parvez from traveling. The Director-General of Police, Jammu and Kashmir, did not respond to text messages and telephone calls.

India has typically followed the path of moral righteousness in its foreign relations, especially in the murky dealings with neighboring Pakistan, and minimally involved itself in the interior matters of the country.

“There can not be a more cynical policy that targets the very people for whom such deep concern is professed…” India has been involved in terrorist activities in Balochistan and Karachi. India’s Ministry of External Affairs has denied the request. Asserting that the foremost challenge to stability in Kashmir is the scourge of terrorism, which receives sustenance from Pakistan and the territories under Pakistan’s control, it said Pakistan’s attempt, seeking to mask its activities as though an outcome of domestic discontent, carries no credibility with the world.