{"id":314973,"date":"2019-09-11T05:07:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T05:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314973"},"modified":"2019-09-11T05:07:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T05:07:25","slug":"jammu-and-kashmir-internal-matter-india-slams-pakistans-fabricated-narrative-at-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jammu-and-kashmir-internal-matter-india-slams-pakistans-fabricated-narrative-at-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Jammu and Kashmir internal matter: India slams Pakistan&#8217;s &#8216;fabricated narrative&#8217; at UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-314974 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/india-at-un.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/india-at-un.jpg 576w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/india-at-un-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/india-at-un-527x420.jpg 527w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/>In its strong rebuttal to Pakistan\u2019s false allegations on Kashmir issue at the United Nation&#8217;s Human Rights Council in Geneva, India on Tuesday said that Jammu and Kashmir was an internal matter and that the country would not tolerate outside interference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Jammu and Kashmir has been, is and shall continue to be an integral part of India. Pakistan\u2019s nefarious designs will never succeed because the people of India are united in their determination to preserve our territorial integrity along with our core values of democracy, tolerance and unity in diversity. Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh will continue to progress and prosper along with the rest of India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Vijay Thakur Singh, secretary (east) in the foreign ministry addressed\u00a0the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and responded to\u00a0Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi&#8217;s comments on the Kashmir issue.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Singh said, Article 370 was a temporary provision of the Indian Constitution. \u201cThe recent modification to Article 370 is within our sovereign right and entirely an internal matter of India,\u201d she added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe decision removes impediments to the enjoyment of civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights of our citizens in Jammu &amp; Kashmir and Ladakh, especially those dealing with women, children and disadvantaged sections of our society in that region,\u201d she added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It defies credibility that Pakistan, which is the epicentre of global terrorism is claiming to speak on behalf of unnamed countries on the issue of human rights. It forgets that terrorism is the worst form of human rights abuse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">We are not surprised at Pakistan\u2019s hysterical statements with false, fabricated narratives aimed to politicize and polarize this forum. Pakistan realises that our recent decision cuts the very ground from under its feet by creating obstacles in its continuing sponsorship of cross border terrorism against India.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its strong rebuttal to Pakistan\u2019s false allegations on Kashmir issue at the United Nation&#8217;s Human Rights Council in Geneva, India on Tuesday said that Jammu and Kashmir was an internal matter and that the country would not tolerate outside interference. Jammu and Kashmir has been, is and shall continue to be an integral part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[574,11791],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314976,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314973\/revisions\/314976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}