TIL Desk/World/Islamabad-Upping the ante, Pakistan decided to approach the UN Human Rights Council over the Kashmir situation and request it to send a fact-finding mission there as Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif chaired a high-level meeting which was dominated by the Kashmir issue.
“The Indian attempts to claim that the deteriorating human rights situation” in Kashmir is an internal affair of India is “factually incorrect, legally untenable and a violation of international law and UNSC resolutions,” Sharif was quoted as saying in a statement issued by the Premier’s Office. The statement was issued after Sharif presided over a high-level meeting of the National Security Committee here to discuss regional security, particularly the situation in Kashmir.
“The meeting resolved that Pakistan will approach the Human Rights Council of the United Nations on its own behalf and on behalf of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Contact Group on Kashmir to send a fact finding mission” to Kashmir for investigating the “slaughter of innocent civilians and impose a ban on the use of pellet guns for dispersing people exercising their right to protest,” the statement said.
