If the UN reports are inaccurate, it should be criticised

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Jun 16 2018 08:48 AM
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If the UN reports are inaccurate, it should be criticised

On Friday Shashi Tharoor recommended that the Central government needs to look into the matter if there were any flaws in the UN report on Kashmir.

the United Nations Human Rights Office, in its 49-page report, has asked for an investigation into the recent incident of human rights violations in Kashmir by both India and Pakistan.

As quoted by the ANI, Tharoor said, “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 Member of Parliament also added that if the report was incorrect then it should disagree.

He said, "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. According to Tharoor, the report violates India's sovereignty and territorial wholeness. The entire state of Jammu and Kashmir is an intact part of India and Pakistan is forcibly trying to occupy that part of the Indian state through aggression. He also said that Pakistan has been repeatedly asked to vacate the territories that it has occupied.

As quoted by the ANI, the Ministry of external allegedly stated, "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."