Pakistan misusing Kashmir for its political agenda, say EU experts

Mar 03, 2020

Geneva (Switzerland), Mar 03 (ANI): European experts have lambasted over Pakistan for "misusing" Kashmir for its political agenda at a side event during the 43rd session of UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday. They joined the platform with political and social activists from Jammu and Kashmir, PoK and Gilgit Baltistan at an event titled "Weaponising Kashmir: Misused Kashmir for its political agenda". Brian Toll, former director at European Commission said, "It is clear that Pakistan has issues with India because Pakistan is not a secular democratic state with the same kind of diverse constitution and diverse ethnicity which India has and India is feeling proud of having". Paulo Casaca, Executive Director of a Brussels based South Asia Democratic Forum said, "The key of the matter is for Pakistan to acknowledge that since 1947 it has been occupying unlawfully big part of former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir and it should sort out the issue directly, bilaterally with India".