A critique of the Indian govt.’s response to the OHCHR report on Kashmir | Tapan Bose

The United Nations, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), on June 14 published “Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Kashmir: Developments in the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir from June 2016 to April 2018†. This is the first such report on Jammu and Kashmir by the UN. It covers both India and Pakistan controlled areas of the former princely state. Government of India has rejected the OHCHR report as “fallacious.†The spokesperson of India’s Ministry of External Affairs claimed that the report was overtly “prejudiced†and was seeking to “build a false narrative.†Read Tapan Bose’s critique of Indian govt.’s response at: ​https://countercurrents.org/2018/06/20/the-ohchr-report-on-kashmir-will-india-succeed-in-blocking-discussions-on-the-report-in-geneva/​