{"id":5594,"date":"2016-10-04T17:58:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T12:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=5594"},"modified":"2016-10-04T17:58:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T12:28:12","slug":"pakistan-gives-evidence-us-human-rights-violations-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=5594","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan gives &#8216;evidence&#8217; to US on &#8216;human rights violations&#8217; in Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Pakistan has given evidence of &#8220;human rights violations&#8221; in Kashmir to the US, the Foreign Office said on Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Pakistan&#8217;s ambassador to the US Jalil Abbas Jilani on Monday gave evidence of &#8220;human rights violations in Kashmir&#8221; to US special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Olson, the Foreign Office said in a statement here.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Jilani submitted a dossier containing evidence of Indian &#8220;atrocities&#8221; in Kashmir to Olson and called for the US to take action against &#8220;the human rights abuse&#8221; by Indian forces in the Kashmir Valley, Geo News reported.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He urged the US to exercise its powers as a Permanent Member of the UN Security Council to put an end to the &#8220;atrocities&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Jilani said Kashmiri people should be afforded their right to self-determination and further called on the international community to send human rights organisations to Kashmir to monitor the situation there.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Recalling Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif&#8217;s recent statement that Kashmiris and Pakistanis were inseparable, Jilani reiterated that &#8220;Islamabad would continue to extend all possible moral, political and diplomatic support to the people of Kashmir for realisation of their right to self-determination&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The meeting with Olson comes a day after Pakistani political leaders during an &#8216;All Parties Conference&#8217; resolved to raise the Kashmir issue at various international fora and said they stood united against Indian &#8220;aggression&#8221; and violation of human rights in Kashmir.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The tension between India and Pakistan has been high since July 9, a day after top militant Burhan Wani was killed in a gunfight with Indian security forces. Islamabad has described Wani as a &#8220;martyr&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Relations between the two neighbouring nations further deteriorated after the September 18 attack at an Indian Army camp in Uri town of north Kashmir, which left 19 soldiers dead. <em><strong>IANS<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Pakistan has given evidence of &#8220;human rights violations&#8221; in Kashmir to the US, the Foreign Office said on Tuesday. Pakistan&#8217;s ambassador to the US Jalil Abbas Jilani on Monday gave evidence of &#8220;human rights violations in Kashmir&#8221; to US special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Olson, the Foreign Office said in a statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}