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Pakistan renews call for UN fact-finding mission to be sent to Kashmir

NEW YORK, Nov 6 (APP): Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Maleeha Lodhi, has again called on the United Nations to dispatch a fact-finding mission to Kashmir, saying that India’s rejection to allow one was in fact acknowledgment of the grave atrocities being committed by its occupation forces. Ambassador Lodhi made that call when the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, called on her at the Pakistan Mission in New York, according to an official press release issued Saturday. The Pakistani envoy commended the High Commissioner for his effective leadership as an advocate of human rights and fundamental freedoms across the world. Pakistan, she said, appreciated his repeated calls for grant of unconditional access for the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to both sides of the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistan has already agreed to grant access to OHCHR.