Pak to allow UN body to visit all Kashmir areas

Pak to allow UN body to visit all Kashmir areas

FPJ BureauUpdated: Thursday, May 30, 2019, 01:14 PM IST
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Islamabad: Pakistan said on Thursday it will allow the UN to send a team to its part of Kashmir, days after India turned down a request by the UN rights council to travel to Jammu and Kashmir to investigate alleged rights violations.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had written to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHRC) Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein to “end the persistent and egregious violation of basic human rights of the Kashmiri people”.

An all-party meeting in New Delhi presided over by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week dismissed the UNHRC‘s request to visit Kashmir.

Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Nafees Zakariya told a weekly briefing that Pakistan welcomes “Any UN team that the UNHCR may wish to send to Azad Jammu and Kashmir)”.

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