{"id":28718,"date":"2018-10-24T14:30:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28718"},"modified":"2018-10-24T14:30:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:00:32","slug":"right-on-kashmirs-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/right-on-kashmirs-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Right on Kashmir\u2019s rights?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/right-on-kashmirs-rights\/article24213245.ece\">Right on Kashmir\u2019s rights?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><u>News:<\/u><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>India criticize\u00a0 UN body\u2019s report on Kashmir as it\u00a0violates its \u201csovereignty and territorial integrity\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><u>Important Facts:<\/u><\/p>\n<p>2.The first ever report by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Jammu and Kashmir, including Pakistan-occupied published last week.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>The report has been in production since 2016.<\/li>\n<li>A new wave of violence had then hit the Kashmir Valley , after killing of Hizbul Mujhahideen militant Burhan Wani.<\/li>\n<li>Consequently, the OHCRC asked India and Pakistan to allow its team\u2019s access to the State, a request that was refused.<\/li>\n<li>The OHCHR used \u201cremote monitoring\u201d from local sources to write the report.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>7.The report is controversial to India because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The report criticized India\u2019s handling of the protests, alleged extra-judicial killings and hard tactics.<\/li>\n<li>The External Affairs Minister is also upset by the terms used to describe militant in the report.(For example- Hizbul Mujhahidee, which is regarded as terrorist organsiation by India, was described in the report as an \u201carmed group\u201d.)<\/li>\n<li>Report undermines the UN-led consensus on zero tolerance to terrorism.<\/li>\n<li>The report makes specific recommendations aimed at India, including removing the Armed Forces( Special Powers) Act from areas and instituting inquiries into alleged human rights violations.<\/li>\n<li>India has said that report violates its \u201csovereignty and territorial integrity\u201d as it has used terms such as \u201cAzad Jammu and Kashmir\u201d and \u201cGilgit Balistan\u201d to describe the part of the State under Pakistani control.<\/li>\n<li>India does not consider Pakistan\u2019s control over a part of Kashmir as legitimate and describes the region as Pakistan occupied Kashmir.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>India upset over report because the controversial terms used in the report can be interpreted as a sign of recognition of these regions as being part of Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right on Kashmir\u2019s rights? News: India criticize\u00a0 UN body\u2019s report on Kashmir as it\u00a0violates its \u201csovereignty and territorial integrity\u201d. Important Facts: 2.The first ever report by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Jammu and Kashmir, including Pakistan-occupied published last week. The report has been in production since 2016. A&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/right-on-kashmirs-rights\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Right on Kashmir\u2019s rights?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704911076},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}