Highlights

• The United Nations (UN) report on the human rights situation in Kashmir is baseless and without seeing the ground realities, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said here on Friday. On Thursday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had backed the report, and called for investigating the rights situation.
• “I don’t expect the UNSG to say anything different. But the fact is it was a report prepared sitting somewhere else. Assessment by UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is without basis on the ground and without seeing the situation on the ground,” Ms. Sitharaman told presspersons at her South Block office.
• The Minister said the report had ignored realities of how the Army had been exercising maximum restraint in fighting terrorists and curbing protests in Jammu and Kashmir.

Source: The Hindu