US Congressional hearing was a setup against India, favours Pakistan: Indian journalist Aarti Tikoo Singh
Washington/IBNS: Indian journalist Aarti Tikoo Singh has said the United States House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing was prejudiced, biased and it was set up against India after she told the Congressional hearing that Kashmiri Muslims have suffered most from terror exported by Pakistan, a truth ignored by Western media and rights groups.
She went on to say on Tuesday that the hearing was formed in favour of Pakistan after Ilhan Omar, a Muslim Democratic Congresswoman known for her controversial views, reportedly accused Singh of being partisan.
Tikoo was quoted as saying by ANI news agency: "The entire Congressional hearing was prejudiced, biased and a setup against India and also in favour of Pakistan."
"The congressional hearing was completely prejudice against 15,000 Kashmiri Muslims civilians who have been killed by Pakistan, it was prejudice against 3 lakh Kashmiri pundits who were ethnically cleansed from Kashmir in 1990, it was prejudice against over 700 Kashmiri pundits who work here in Kashmir in 1990," she said.
Speaking at a hearing on human rights in South Asia held by the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific in Washington, she was quoted as saying by The Economic Times: "What the foot-soldiers of the Pakistani military and ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) have done to ordinary Kashmiri Muslims in the last 30 years, pales in comparison to the human rights violations committed by the Indian state."
She said in the past 30 years terrorists have killed more Kashmiri Muslim civilians than people belonging to any other community in the state.
The terror perpetrated by Pakistan in Kashmir "has been completely ignored and overlooked by the world press," said the senior assistant editor at The Times of India.
The Indian journalist even said that the Western press and a section of the Indian press present a "distorted reality of Kashmir".
The Indian journalist later tweeted to express her disappointment on the US Congress panel gagging her during the hearings.
Brave @timesofindia journalist @AartiTikoo flies to DC to testify to truth of Pakistani militancy in #kashmir@Ilhan attacks Aarti as govt “mouthpiece,” dismisses extremism (“what you call are militants”), asks others Qs & leaves before Aarti defends self with grace #WhatTheFatwa pic.twitter.com/DjFndJcwZX
— Asra Q. Nomani, PI (@AsraNomani) October 23, 2019
"Pakistani Islamists drove me & my community (Kashmiri Hindus) out of Kashmir in 1990, Hindu India denied me voice for 30 years & Islamist @IlhanMN gagged me today under the chairmanship of Democrat Congressman @BradSherman. Is this democracy? No, it’s IslamoCapitalism talking," she tweeted.
Pakistani Islamists drove me & my community (Kashmiri Hindus) out of Kashmir in 1990, Hindu India denied me voice for 30 years & Islamist @IlhanMN gagged me today under the chairmanship of Democrat Congressman @BradSherman. Is this democracy? No, it’s IslamoCapitalism talking.
— Aarti Tikoo Singh (@AartiTikoo) October 22, 2019
Muslim-American Iihan Omar is known for her controversial views. Omar, an immigrant from Somalia and now the U.S. Representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district is a strong critic of Israel and shortly after she took office, she was slammed by a number of Democrats, Republicans and Jewish civil rights groups for comments about American support for Israel that they said drew on anti-Semitic tropes. Omar apologized for some of the remarks.
He had reportedly also undermined the seriousness of the 9/11 al-Qaeda attacks in 2001 that killed more than 3,000 people in New York.
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