Concepts of democracy and constitution are alien to Pakistan, which operates under the shadow of the military, and it can’t understand how the ideals are integral to Kashmir, India has said, demanding that Islamabad end repression in areas it illegally occupies.

“The people of Jammu and Kashmir exercise their fundamental rights in accordance with India’s time-tested democratic traditions and constitutional framework,” India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, P. Harish, said Friday.

“We, of course, know that these are concepts alien to Pakistan.”

“We call upon Pakistan to end the grave and ongoing human rights violations in the areas illegally occupied by it, where the population is in open revolt against Pakistan’s military occupation, repression, brutality and illegal exploitation o

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