MUZAFFARABAD: United States (US) Congresswoman Ilhan Omar on Thursday said she would brief the US Congress and administration about he human rights violations being committed by the Narendra Modi-led government in the Indian-Occupied Kashmir (IOK).
The issue of human rights abuses in Kashmir was less talked about in the US and she would try to take up the issue with both the US Congress and the Biden administration, she said in a brief chat with the media after meeting Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Barrister Sultan Mehmood.
Ilhan Omar said: “We are engaged through a Foreign Office Committee about the question of Kashmir and this question is not as much talked as it should be.”
She said she is visiting the AJK to collect the facts and the tour is benefiting her to understand the issue. She would obviously inform her party, the Congress and the Biden administration, besides raising the issue on other forums, she added.
She said she is optimistic that more conversation would be held in the Congress on the question of Kashmir and anti-Muslim acts of the Indian government on her return (to the US) and she would be able to get issued condemnations by the US administration and raising the issue with India.
Earlier, Mehmood briefed the Congresswoman about the human rights abuses being committed by the Indian government in the IOJK and expressed the optimism that the Biden administration would take a cognizance of the post August 5, 2019 acts.
She also visited refugee camps in the AJK’s capital to assess the situation in IOJK as these camps house the people displaced from the Indian side of Jammu and Kashmir due to Indian atrocities.
