GENEVA/NEW DELHI: India today took objection to the top UN human rights official’s use of the phrase “Indian Administered Kashmir”, saying it cannot be equated with PoK, and expressed “surprise” at his silence on Pakistan’s use of terrorism as an instrument of state policy.
Reacting to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein’s oral update during the 34rd Session of Human Rights Council in which he made a reference to “India- Administered Jammu and Kashmir”, India asserted that the whole state of Jammu and Kashmir was its integral part.
“The central problem in Jammu & Kashmir is cross-border terrorism, and hence, we are a little surprised that the High Commissioner was silent regarding Pakistan that uses terrorism as an instrument of state policy,” India’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva Ajit Kumar said during the general debate on the oral update by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR). (AGENCIES)
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