After excessive callout of Kashmir at maximum International Forums to allow other countries to intervene and enable a peaceful ceasefire on the matter. One of these countries is Britain and it Is encouraging India to follow Pakistan’s example of approaching the Kashmir Issue:
We [the group] had a very full and frank discussion with the foreign minister. I am very grateful to him and to the Pakistani government for facilitating this independent trip of the group from the UK parliament. We sought to visit Pakistan and Azad Kashmir so that we could understand in more detail about what was happening and to speak with people there.
We also sought to visit India and Jammu and Kashmir, but unfortunately that hasn’t happened. Hopefully it will happen in the future. We sought to visit Pakistan and Azad Kashmir so that we could understand in more detail about what was happening and to speak with people there. We also sought to visit India and Jammu and Kashmir, but unfortunately that hasn’t happened. Hopefully it will happen in the future.
But I have had no responses to my requests for a delegation to go to Jammu & Kashmir [on India’s side]. I hope India will take the opportunity to reflect on Pakistan’s approach to addressing the issues that it has faced in different parts of the country and how they are responding to the report from the UN […] and take the opportunity to become more open […] We are an independent group, we are not anti-India or pro-Pakistan, we are pro-human rights. Please don’t be under any illusion we are not doing that. Last week, I met with the British foreign minister […] and I know my Conservative colleagues who are part of this delegation will also be reporting back to their parties.
What is going on in Jammu & Kashmir has not gone unnoticed. We are not here for a sightseeing trip, to look at what is happening and to do nothing. We are constantly raising this […] we hope in addition to what we are doing through our government, the international community as a whole will realise that human rights is a priority and that priorities are not just about trade.
