@That Guy
QUESTION: May I have one more on the region, please, quickly?
MR TONER: Quickly.
QUESTION: Including the
Washington Post agreed and first – for the first time that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he opened a Pandora on – in his independence day speech in India,
that the time has come and world must look into this, what’s going on in the occupied Pakistan Kashmir and also Balochistan. Because nobody knew before what’s really happening or what the army is expressing those who stood and stand for freedom and for human rights and also for free and fair elections.
MR TONER: Okay.
QUESTION: Washington Post also said that nobody knew before Prime Minister Modi spoke
about this what’s happening in the Kashmir in Pakistan. So have you --
MR TONER: Nobody knew – I’m sorry – about what was happening with --
QUESTION: In the occupied Kashmir in Pakistan. Because everybody been talking about only Kashmir in India, but nobody has ever spoken about Kashmir in Pakistan --
MR TONER: Well, I think we --
QUESTION: -- because that’s what I’ve been saying for many, many years.
MR TONER: Sure. Well, I would respectfully beg to differ.
We do have concerns about the human rights situation there, have reported it for several years in our Human Rights Report, and we’ve obviously – are always urging all parties in Pakistan to work out their differences peaceably and through a valid political process. And with respect to Kashmir, our policy there is well known.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2016/08/261220.htm#INDIA
For your reference
You can check their comments yourself, Azad Kashmir was NEVER mentioned EVER. The topic was Baluchistan, and the human rights conditions there, no one even hinted as Azad Kashmir.
Source: https://defence.pk/threads/us-concerned-about-human-rights-situation-in-pakistan-occupied-kashmir.445837/page-4#ixzz4IHB89I1T
@That Guy
I laugh at both our media actually. Pakistani media has also caught up!!
Referring this
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...heories-about-indias-role-in-rebellion-there/