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    ISLAMABAD - The UN report on human rights abuses in Indian Held Kashmir is likely to meet the fate similar to that of the key document that highlighted Pakistan’s role in nuclear non-proliferation.
    On Monday, Special Rapporteur, United Nations Human Rights Council, Margaret Sekaggya, started her eleven-day visit to India as part of her ‘fact-finding mission’ regarding human rights violations in Orissa, Gujrat, West Bengal and IHK.
    An official of United Nations Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in New Delhi, requesting anonymity, telephonically told The Nation on Tuesday that Margaret Sekaggya would ‘expedite’ the progress on UNHRC’s pending report on gross human rights violations in IHK since June 11 last year.
    It was also learnt that the Special Rapporteur would take into consideration the confidential weekly and monthly reports of United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) offices located in New Delhi and Srinagar before making her final recommendations for the evaluation of the pending report.
    The UN official’s visit to India would conclude on the coming January 21. Just two days later, on January 23, the UNHRC would hold 10th session of Universal Periodic Review (UPR) to scrutinise human rights record of 16 countries and India would not be one of them. Not only that, a total number of 48 countries would be scrutinised in UPR in the light of international human rights practices in the year 2011 except India. Strangely, the UNHRC had not included India in its 9th UPR session that was held in November last year despite India’s worst human rights record in IHK. Given that the United Nations Secretary General’s office is virtually ‘hijacked’ by powerful Indian lobby, the fate of this report, even if it comes into existence, would not be different than that of the note verbale sent by Pakistan’s Permanent Mission in United Nations to the Chairman UN Security Council’s Committee on nuclear non-proliferation.
    http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Politics/12-Jan-2011/UN-report-on-IHK-abuses-
    in-doldrums



    Roll of UN quite strange & double standard, where are all these UN active members who called their self as non polar & leaders of human rights?

    Where is USA who ever observed UN activities and infrastructure, is this situation out of sight when a country hijacked a department for its interests?

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