India gets a big diplomatic snub from the European Union

[The Eagle]

India gets a big diplomatic snub from the European Union
28 Mar, 2019

ISLAMABAD - India gets a big diplomatic snub from the European Union over the issue of Occupied Kashmir brutalities.

A large cross-party group of Members of the European Parliament has urged India to ban using pellet guns on civilians in Indian-Occupied Kashmir.


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The group has signed a letter to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to this effect. Authored by a Labour Member of the European Parliament representing the North West of England, Wajid Khan, the letter expressed concern about the previous and ongoing human rights violations against the people of Kashmir.

The EU Parliamentarians raised an issue about the use of pellet shotguns that are blinding and killing hundreds of people in Kashmir. They specifically mentioned the 19-months-old child who got seriously injured by a pellet gun.

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They further pointed out that The Armed Forces (Jammu and Kashmir) Special Powers Act 1990 (AFSPA) and the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act 1978 (PSA) give special immunity to the security forces against prosecution for any human rights violation.

[image: 50 EU Parliamentarians Call for Ban on Pellet Guns against Kashmiris]

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[image: 50 EU Parliamentarians Call for Ban on Pellet Guns against Kashmiris]

The dignitaries urged the Indian government to end the use of pellet-firing shotguns in Jammu and Kashmir, repeal the acts mentioned above as they do not comply with international human rights laws and provide reparation and rehabilitation to the affectees along with establishing impartial and independent investigations into the accidents.

 

[war&peace]

I have always stressed that Pakistan should forge stronger relations with EU and EU should not be bracketed with US on each & every issue. But the haramkhor bureaucrats in foreign office and our incompetent, corrupt & traitorous political leadership have always failed. Good that current PM is much better and a great job on foreign policy front... Rather IK has been the best the foreign minister for Pakistan since ZAB.

 

[Progressive Conservative]

I have always stressed that Pakistan should forge stronger relations with EU and EU should not be bracketed with US on each & every issue. But the haramkhor bureaucrats in foreign office and our incompetent, corrupt & traitorous political leadership have always failed. Good that current PM is much better and a great job on foreign policy front... Rather IK has been the best the foreign minister for Pakistan since ZAB.

Great point. The US is a bit of a loose cannon and follows its national interests blindly, which change fairly regularly and randomly- just look at their Afghan policy over the past half a century.

The EU however is rules and values based and hence far more predictable (there are exceptions to this: e.g. relations with Middle Eastern strongmen). If you understand the rules by which they operate, you can sustain a positive relation with them. Also, as the EU becomes increasingly federalised, the importance of having good relations with the EU as opposed to good bilateral relations with member states (not the same thing) becomes greater.