India, Pak. clash at UNHRC meet

GENEVA, AUG. 11. India and Pakistan today clashed over the situation in Kashmir with New Delhi declaring that the root cause of the problem was cross-border terrorism backed by Islamabad's military Government. New Delhi also lambasted Islamabad of being recalcitrant and using any excuse to launch a tirade against India.

The heated exchanges took place after a Pakistani diplomat, Mr. Farooq Iqbal Khan, criticised a report for ignoring alleged atrocities in Kashmir at the ongoing 52nd session of the sub- commission of the U.N. Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) here.

The report was prepared by an independent Special Rapporteur, Mr. Gay McDougall of the U.S., appointed by the UNHRC to look into wartime rape and sexual abuses all over the world.

Mr. R. Prasad, an Indian diplomat, questioned how a military dictatorship could be dictating terms to a democracy, albeit India, about human rights and asserted that Pakistan should put its own house in order.

He said Pakistan always displayed ``compulsive hostility'' and that India was quite bewildered by this behaviour. Pakistan did not go into the merits of the report and it just used the document as an opportunity to fabricate a tirade against India, he added.

- PTI

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