'UN report on Kashmir motivated and biased,' says Indian Army chief Bipin Rawat
Bipin Rawat
The report said, "the people on both sides of the Line of Control have been detrimentally impacted".
Indian Army chief Bipin Rawat called the latest report of the UN on Kashmir as "motivated" and "biased".
Last week the UN had released the first-ever report on alleged human rights violation in Kashmir and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and demanded an international probe into it. India had called the report “fallacious and motivated”.
"Human rights record of the Indian Army is above is above board," the Army chief said while slamming the UN report, adding,"people of India know the truth."
The UN report said there was an urgent need to address the past and ongoing human rights violations, "any resolution to the political situation in Kashmir should entail a commitment to ending the cycles of violence and accountability for past and current human rights violations."
"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 Gilgit-Baltistan" said despite the government of Pakistan's assertions of denial of any support to these groups, experts believe that "Pakistan's military continues to support their operations across the Line of Control in Indian-Administered Kashmir".
The report said, "the people on both sides of the Line of Control have been detrimentally impacted and suffer from limitations or denial of a range of human rights."
The report asked for urgent repealing of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1990(AFSPA) and had criticised the Indian Army alleging it committed human rights violations in J&K.