Despite New Delhi\u2019s tough-looking posture regarding its activities in India-held Kashmir, it is quite apparent that international reactions to the Modi government\u2019s brutal tactics in the region are beginning to hurt.<\/p>\n
For one, it is clear that India\u2019s ill-advised move of annexing occupied Kashmir by changing its constitutional status has not altered the status quo internationally; much of the world still considers Kashmir a disputed territory, exposing India\u2019s fiction that the troubles in occupied valley are an \u2018internal matter\u2019.<\/p>\n
The Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) is facing a \u201chumanitarian crisis\u201d and India\u2019s Aug 5 decision to annex the \u201cdisputed\u201d territory has been a \u201cdisaster\u201d for Kashmiris, observes a US Congressional panel.<\/p>\n
These observations were made at a daylong hearing of a House subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific on Tuesday, described by the Indian media as \u201cthe most critical examination that any Indian action has received in a panel of US House of Representatives since the 1998 nuclear tests.\u201d<\/p>\n
At least, three lawmakers, Ilhan Omar, Tom Malinowski and David Cicilline, asked US officials testifying before the panel, whether the Indian government\u2019s motivation behind the recent Kashmir decision was national security or an ultra-nationalist and majoritarian agenda.<\/p>\n
Congressman Cicilline asked if Indian security forces had used pellet guns on Kashmiris after Aug 5 and whether children blinded by these guns were away and their families did not know where they were. Ms Wells promised to look into the report.<\/p>\n
The panel\u2019s chairman, Congressman Brad Sherman, questioned India\u2019s claim that it cut-off Kashmir from the rest of the world to prevent cross-border terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n
Mr Sherman asked whether there had been any \u201cverified cross-border terrorism\u201d incidents since Aug 5, when India changed the status of occupied Kashmir.<\/p>\n
The first Indian-American Congresswoman, Pramila Jayapal and Congressman Sherman mentioned that a Kashmiri American, Mujahid Shah, whose father, a businessman, had been detained despite no political links.<\/p>\n
The hearing was titled \u2018Human Rights in South Asia\u2019, but the overwhelming number of questions related to Kashmir. The packed room broke into applause whenever a lawmaker or US official criticised Indian actions in Kashmir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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