MUZAFFARABAD: US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar on Thursday said she would brief the United States Congress and the Biden administration about the human rights violations in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu Kashmir (IIOJK).
“Human rights abuses in Kashmir was less talked about in the United States and she would try to take up the issue with both the Congress and the Biden administration,” she said while briefly speaking to 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 was visiting the Azad Kashmir to collect the facts and understand the issue. She would obviously inform her party, the Congress and Biden administration, besides raising the issue on other forums, she added.
“We held a communication on the Foreign Affairs Committee about human rights violations and anti-Muslim acts of (the) Narendera Modi government and I believe it is not being talked about to the extent it needs to be,” Omar added.
US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar(@IlhanMN) accompanied by a delegation called on the President of the State of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Barrister Sultan Mehmood Chaudhary (@BarrSultan )in the President House Muzaffarabad.
1/2#KashmirLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/MbaHmXU7Sp— Govt of Azad Jammu & Kashmir (@GovtofAJK) April 21, 2022
She said she was optimistic that more conversation would be held in the Congress on the Kashmir and anti-Muslim action of the Indian government on her return to the US and she would be able to get condemnations issued by the US administration and raise the issue with India.
AJK President Barrister Sultan Mehmood briefed the Congresswoman about the human rights abuses being committed by the Indian government in the IIOJK and hope the Biden administration would take notice of the incidents after August 5, 2019.
She also visited refugee camps in the AJK’s capital to assess the situation in IIOJK as these camps house the people displaced from the Indian side of Jammu and Kashmir due to Indian atrocities. Ilhan Omar aldo visited the Line of Control (LoC) and held public and official interactions.
US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN held public and official interactions as she visited the Line of Control #LOC Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) in Pakistan today to assess the ground situation.
She witnessed the whole situation on ground about #Indian aggression at LOC.#LOC #AJK pic.twitter.com/bFJRoks9Io— Fahad Hussyn Qazi (@qazi1101) April 21, 2022
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