The
Foreign Office (FO) in a press release said Pakistan "welcomes the
proposal by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to establish a Commission
of Inquiry for international investigation into human rights violations"
in IHK.
"This proposal is
consistent with Pakistan’s several calls to this effect since 2016, even as
India has continued to ignore legitimate demands for probe into gross and
systematic violations, including pellet guns, excessive use of force, arbitrary
arrest and detentions as well as continued sexual violence as part of overall
impunity enjoyed by Indian security forces," the handout read.
The report's main focus
is on IHK, the FO noted, and the "contents, scale and the narrative of
killings, maiming, abuse and impunity articulated in the report is a
reaffirmation of what Pakistan has long highlighted for the international
community."
"References to
human rights concerns in AJK and Gilgit-Baltistan should in no way be construed
to create a false sense of equivalence with the gross and systematic human
rights violations in IHK," the FO cautioned.