UNITED NATIONS, Aug 19 (APP): The United Nations is set to study reports about India’s attempts at rigging the upcoming elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the Secretary-General’s Deputy spokesman said, while emphasizing that all communities should be “fairly” treated and represented.<\/p>\n
Responding to a question at the daily news briefing in New York about permitting temporary residents in the Muslim-majority Indian occupied Kashmir to register as voters; Spokesman Farhan Aziz Haq said the matter would “need to be studied.” <\/p>\n
“But,” he added, “the basic principle that we followed is that for any disputes, it’s important to make sure that all of the communities feel being fairly treated and fairly represented.”<\/p>\n
In Islamabad, the Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman categorically rejected India’s pre-polling manipulations in the occupied Jammu and Kashmir, and called on the international community to take cognizance of its attempts at effecting illegal demographic changes in the region.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the spokesman said the latest act of permitting temporary residents in the occupied region to register as voters “is a clear manifestation of the treacherous Indian design to influence the outcome of \u2018so-called\u2019 elections” in the territory.<\/p>\n
“Pakistan reiterates its complete rejection of India\u2019s entire litany of steps aimed at turning the Muslim majority in [occupied Jammu and Kashmir] into a minority \u2014 including the formulation of the so-called \u2018Delimitation\u2019 Commission and its baseless report, the issuance of fake Kashmiri domiciles to millions of outsiders, and changes in the property laws,” the FO statement added.<\/p>\n
The statement came in the wake after the chief electoral officer in the occupied valley, Hirdesh Kumar, announced that non-locals living ordinarily could register their names in the voting list.<\/p>\n
\u201cJammu and Kashmir is likely to get around 25 lakh additional voters, including outsiders, after the special summary revision of electoral rolls,\u201d The Wire quoted Kumar as saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 19 (APP): The United Nations is set to study reports about India’s attempts at rigging the upcoming elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the Secretary-General’s Deputy spokesman said, while emphasizing that all communities should be “fairly” treated and represented. Responding to a question […]<\/p>\n
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