HYDERABAD: Slamming the United Nations report calling for international inquiry into alleged human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir, AIMIM supremo and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi has said that it challenges India’s sovereignty.
Addressing citizens at Mecca Masjid after the Friday Jumma prayers here, he said, “Although there is indeed a need for a human rights enquiry into Kashmir, the one called for by the UN challenges India’s sovereignty. I completely support the Centre’s stance on it. The PM and I may be bitter opponents but when it comes to India, the nation is first. The United Nations, instead, should initiate an inquiry into the gross human rights violations in Palestine.”
On Thursday, the UN released a human rights report calling for an international probe into the alleged human rights violations in Kashmir. Owaisi also condemned the assassination of Shujaat Bukhari, editor-in-chief of Rising Kashmir daily.
“Those who killed him are not human beings but are agents of evil. Not only Bukhari, an Army guard was kidnapped and killed,” he said and lamented the violence in Kashmir and especially during Ramzan. Criticising the BJP-PDP government for the rise in violence in the Valley, he asked, “What work have you done in the last three years? The PM acts as a king in New Delhi and Mehbooba Mufti as queen in Srinagar.”