SG Tushar Mehta at UNHRC slams Pakistan for raking Kashmir challenge on the world stage, reiterates ‘J&Ok, Ladakh was, will all the time be India’s integral half’

On Thursday, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta lambasted Pakistan for resurrecting the difficulty of Kashmir on the worldwide platform. Tushar Mehta whereas addressing the forty first session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) working group on the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) stated, “the entire Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh was and will always be an integral and inseparable part of India”.

According to studies, Mehta responded to the neighbouring nation of Pakistan and highlighted the Union Territory’s transformation after the abrogation of Article 370, as in comparison with Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). “After the constitutional changes in 2019, the people of the region are now able to realize their full potential like other parts of the country,” Mehta stated.

J-Ok and Ladakh was and can all the time be India’s integral, inseparable half: Tushar Mehta at UNHRC

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Tushar Mehta’s reply got here after Pakistan’s envoy broached the subject of Kashmir throughout his feedback within the evaluate course of. The Pakistani delegate submitted six ideas, together with undoing actions performed since August 2019 and permitting neutral observers entry to the area. Mehta who headed the Indian delegation at UPR stated, “Despite the constant threat of cross-border terrorism, the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir has improved significantly since August 2019.”

In 2019, India withdrew the particular standing of the previous state of Jammu and Kashmir and separated it into two union territories. He acknowledged that the Indian authorities has taken varied efforts towards the general improvement of Jammu and Kashmir, together with the restoration of democracy on the grassroots degree, robust administration, and unparalleled infrastructural, vacationer, and business development. He additionally acknowledged that round 16 million individuals had visited Jammu and Kashmir this yr, the “highest ever.”

“Expanding more than 800 people-friendly and progressive central laws in the region has ensured better opportunities for all the people of Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh. These central laws include affirmative action for weaker sections, the right to free and compulsory education, non-discriminatory laws, protection against domestic violence and empowerment of women, criminalization of same-sex relationships and rights to transgender people,” he added.

Meanwhile, on the UN Human Rights Council convention in Geneva, Greece inspired India to totally implement spiritual freedom, whereas Germany raised considerations in regards to the state of human rights. Mehta went on to say that whereas India values the function of human rights defenders, journalists, and activists within the democratic system, their actions needs to be in accordance with the regulation.

He acknowledged that India has handed legal guidelines to fill gaps within the authorized system to fulfill its human rights duties and that it has performed an intensive evaluation of present legal guidelines, together with the repeal of out of date colonial-era laws. Meanwhile, the forty first UPR prompt that India ought to fight violence towards ladies, ratify the Convention towards Torture, abolish the dying penalty, and safeguard civil society and human rights activists, in addition to ethnic and spiritual minorities.

At #UPR41, States really useful that #India:
– fight violence towards ladies
– ratify the Convention towards Torture
– abolish the dying penalty
– guarantee freedom of expression, affiliation & meeting
– defend civil society & human rights defenders + ethnic & spiritual minorities

— UN Human Rights Council (@UN_HRC) November 10, 2022

Mehta then emphasised that India had dominated the moment divorce issued by the Talaq 3 times as illegal and unlawful and that it has revised its legal laws to broaden the classes of rape, sexual abuse, and trafficking, with harsher penalties.

At #UPR41, Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General, stated #India had:
– declared the moment divorce granted by the pronouncement of Talaq 3 times as void & unlawful
– amended its legal regulation to broaden the definitions of rape, sexual violence & trafficking with stricter punishments

— UN Human Rights Council (@UN_HRC) November 10, 2022

The delegation is led by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta and contains Sanjay Verma, Secretary (West), Indra Mani Pandey, Permanent Representative of India, KM Nataraj, Ld. Additional Solicitor General of India, and high officers from the Ministry of External Affairs. The UPR41 Working Group is scheduled to undertake India’s report at 15:30 on November 16, 2022.