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Pak is not abusing 8 million people with a virtual prison, not to mention the crimes.
Indians themselves are saying it's cruel. Isnt it banned in certain areas of India?
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Pak is not abusing 8 million people with a virtual prison, not to mention the crimes.
Indians themselves are saying it's cruel. Isnt it banned in certain areas of India?
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Gosh some really desperate and pathetic people defending Modi and his government. It's actually sickening
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Lets have a constructive discussion instead of mud throwing.
Do you think amnesty international is a clean organization which does abide every ethical rules as outlined in religious books and has no agenda involved which doesn't lead to gain other than goal of servicing towards the cause?
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China is winning Asia with money power. Turkey is winning it with soft power. Not sure what will be left for India by the end, maybe a slightly smaller country where majority religion has increased slightly in density.
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Turkey is not winning it with soft power but by actual power, please check the locations where their forces are deployed, if India had done that there would be so much hue and cry but every country lets it slide by coz its Turkey with all their treaties and location.
Soft power is what Canada has.. and maybe South Korea.(K pop)
Also if you want to take a dig Cap go ahead, doesn't matter to me as I said already we will know in 15 years and if it didn't work out our population will change and move it to a different direction.
Fair enough, but what was the reason for restricting incoming money in the first place? Is there evidence of it being used in an illegal manner?
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Throwing out foreign ngos breaking laws is legal in every country.
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Support to illegal terror groups and funding political activities and interference in Indian judicial process.
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India out to mute rights defenders, UN told
Pakistan has called on the United Nations to closely monitor the situation in the restive Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), where reprisals and attacks against human rights defenders were growing amid a harsh security clampdown.
During an Interactive Dialogue with the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders in the in the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee, Pakistani delegate Qasim Aziz Butt said that the gravity and frequency of the Indian reprisal attacks had intensified.
“Acts of intimidation and reprisals against those who cooperate with the UN system undermine the credibility and effectiveness of the UN as a whole, including its human rights machinery,” Butt told the committee, which deals with social, cultural and humanitarian issues.
“Thousands of Kashmiri youth, human rights defenders, journalists and lawyers were arbitrarily arrested, tortured and put into incommunicado detention,” Butt, a second secretary in the Pakistan mission to the UN, said.
“Civil society organisations and international media have been denied access, as the 14-month digital and physical lockdown put the occupied territory into a communication and information blackout.”
Butt referred to last month’s cold-blooded murder of lawyer Babar Qadri, a renowned Kashmiri human rights defender, by unidentified men in IIOJK. He said Qadri joined a long list of critical voices who had been systematically eliminated through extrajudicial killings.
He informed the committee that major human rights organisations, including the Human Rights Watch and the Amnesty International, had continuously been expressing concerns over these systematic reprisals against human rights defenders in India and occupied Kashmir.
“Instead of responding to these concerns, the Indian government has embarked upon a witch-hunt against those who dare to report these crimes,” he said. “Only last month the Amnesty International ceased work in India, citing constant harassment at the hands of the government authorities.”
Butt warned that the ongoing curtailment of rights in IIOJK, including the right to free speech and expression and the right to peaceful assembly and association had a direct bearing on the safety of human rights defenders, and their ability to carry out their work effectively.
False narrative
Meanwhile, speaking in the UNGA’s Fourth Committee, which deals with political and decolonisation issues, Pakistani delegate Bilal Mahmood Chaudhary rejected India’s false narrative to equate the Kashmiris’ struggle for the right of self-determination with terrorism.
“The indigenous resistance in occupied Kashmir stemmed from the denial of that inalienable right to the oppressed people,” Chaudhary said. “Since the Indian colonisation of Jammu and Kashmir in 1947, New Delhi has tried different tactics to sustain its illegal occupation.”
Chaudhary Exercised his right of reply following the statement of an Indian representative who claimed that Jammu and Kashmir was an integral part of India and that the principle of self-determination was no justification for undermining a member state’s territorial integrity.
Chaudhary, a counsellor at the Pakistan Mission to the UN, pointed out that there was a “massive resistance” to India’s rule in IIOJK. “The Kashmiri people remain resolute … despite being subjected to massacre, rape, torture, mass blinding and forced disappearances.”
Referring to India’s attempt to alter the demographics in the colonised territory, he said that India now aimed to snatch the cultural identity and land of the indigenous people of Jammu and Kashmir But she needed to understand that such deceptions were destined to fail.
“Fearful of strong local reaction, India continues to impose inhumane military and digital siege, shutting out IIOJK from rest of the world. [But] these [atrocities] will intensify the yearnings of the people of Jammu and Kashmir for the right to self-determination.”
Chaudhary reminded the committee that the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples gives them the right to self-determination, adding that the subjecting peoples to alien subjugation was contrary to the UN Charter.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2269197/india-out-to-mute-rights-defenders-un-told
Pakistan has called on the United Nations to closely monitor the situation in the restive Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), where reprisals and attacks against human rights defenders were growing amid a harsh security clampdown.
During an Interactive Dialogue with the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders in the in the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee, Pakistani delegate Qasim Aziz Butt said that the gravity and frequency of the Indian reprisal attacks had intensified.
“Acts of intimidation and reprisals against those who cooperate with the UN system undermine the credibility and effectiveness of the UN as a whole, including its human rights machinery,” Butt told the committee, which deals with social, cultural and humanitarian issues.
“Thousands of Kashmiri youth, human rights defenders, journalists and lawyers were arbitrarily arrested, tortured and put into incommunicado detention,” Butt, a second secretary in the Pakistan mission to the UN, said.
“Civil society organisations and international media have been denied access, as the 14-month digital and physical lockdown put the occupied territory into a communication and information blackout.”
Butt referred to last month’s cold-blooded murder of lawyer Babar Qadri, a renowned Kashmiri human rights defender, by unidentified men in IIOJK. He said Qadri joined a long list of critical voices who had been systematically eliminated through extrajudicial killings.
He informed the committee that major human rights organisations, including the Human Rights Watch and the Amnesty International, had continuously been expressing concerns over these systematic reprisals against human rights defenders in India and occupied Kashmir.
“Instead of responding to these concerns, the Indian government has embarked upon a witch-hunt against those who dare to report these crimes,” he said. “Only last month the Amnesty International ceased work in India, citing constant harassment at the hands of the government authorities.”
Butt warned that the ongoing curtailment of rights in IIOJK, including the right to free speech and expression and the right to peaceful assembly and association had a direct bearing on the safety of human rights defenders, and their ability to carry out their work effectively.
False narrative
Meanwhile, speaking in the UNGA’s Fourth Committee, which deals with political and decolonisation issues, Pakistani delegate Bilal Mahmood Chaudhary rejected India’s false narrative to equate the Kashmiris’ struggle for the right of self-determination with terrorism.
“The indigenous resistance in occupied Kashmir stemmed from the denial of that inalienable right to the oppressed people,” Chaudhary said. “Since the Indian colonisation of Jammu and Kashmir in 1947, New Delhi has tried different tactics to sustain its illegal occupation.”
Chaudhary Exercised his right of reply following the statement of an Indian representative who claimed that Jammu and Kashmir was an integral part of India and that the principle of self-determination was no justification for undermining a member state’s territorial integrity.
Chaudhary, a counsellor at the Pakistan Mission to the UN, pointed out that there was a “massive resistance” to India’s rule in IIOJK. “The Kashmiri people remain resolute … despite being subjected to massacre, rape, torture, mass blinding and forced disappearances.”
Referring to India’s attempt to alter the demographics in the colonised territory, he said that India now aimed to snatch the cultural identity and land of the indigenous people of Jammu and Kashmir But she needed to understand that such deceptions were destined to fail.
“Fearful of strong local reaction, India continues to impose inhumane military and digital siege, shutting out IIOJK from rest of the world. [But] these [atrocities] will intensify the yearnings of the people of Jammu and Kashmir for the right to self-determination.”
Chaudhary reminded the committee that the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples gives them the right to self-determination, adding that the subjecting peoples to alien subjugation was contrary to the UN Charter.
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India has fined the local arm of Amnesty International nearly $8 million after a probe into its finances the watchdog said was part of a "witch hunt".
Rights groups have long claimed they face harassment from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist administration for highlighting rights abuses, including in the disputed territory of Kashmir.
Amnesty's local bank accounts were frozen in 2020 as part of the probe, forcing the group to lay off staff and halt campaign and research work.
India's Enforcement Directorate, the agency responsible for investigating financial crimes, said Friday that Amnesty had broken foreign funding laws by directing overseas contributions to expand its local operations.
In a statement, it said Amnesty India had been fined $6.5 million for receiving illegal foreign contributions, while its former chief executive Aakar Patel was fined an additional $1.3 million.
Amnesty did not immediately respond to the latest action by the agency.
But in 2020, the group said the freezing of its accounts was part of an "incessant witch-hunt of human rights organizations by the Government of India over unfounded and motivated allegations."
Like in Russia under President Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orban's Hungary, critics say Modi's government has sought to pressure rights groups by heavily scrutinising their finances and clamping down on foreign funding.
In 2015, the year after Modi took office, the Indian government froze the bank accounts of environmental organisation Greenpeace's India unit.
Amnesty faced sedition charges, later dropped, the following year over an event to discuss human rights violations in occupied Kashmir.
In 2018, the Enforcement Directorate raided Amnesty's office in Bangalore, and the watchdog said investigators later selectively leaked documents to the media.
Patel was stopped from flying to the United States earlier this year because of the government's legal action against the human rights watchdog.
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Rights groups have long claimed they face harassment from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist administration for highlighting rights abuses, including in the disputed territory of Kashmir.
Amnesty's local bank accounts were frozen in 2020 as part of the probe, forcing the group to lay off staff and halt campaign and research work.
India's Enforcement Directorate, the agency responsible for investigating financial crimes, said Friday that Amnesty had broken foreign funding laws by directing overseas contributions to expand its local operations.
In a statement, it said Amnesty India had been fined $6.5 million for receiving illegal foreign contributions, while its former chief executive Aakar Patel was fined an additional $1.3 million.
Amnesty did not immediately respond to the latest action by the agency.
But in 2020, the group said the freezing of its accounts was part of an "incessant witch-hunt of human rights organizations by the Government of India over unfounded and motivated allegations."
Like in Russia under President Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orban's Hungary, critics say Modi's government has sought to pressure rights groups by heavily scrutinising their finances and clamping down on foreign funding.
In 2015, the year after Modi took office, the Indian government froze the bank accounts of environmental organisation Greenpeace's India unit.
Amnesty faced sedition charges, later dropped, the following year over an event to discuss human rights violations in occupied Kashmir.
In 2018, the Enforcement Directorate raided Amnesty's office in Bangalore, and the watchdog said investigators later selectively leaked documents to the media.
Patel was stopped from flying to the United States earlier this year because of the government's legal action against the human rights watchdog.
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