Unreported Kashmir

We, the members of the all-party parliamentary group on Kashmir, wish to express our disappointment that the situation in Jammu and Kashmir has fallen off the British media radar. Humanitarian crises in Syria, Darfur, Burma, Afghanistan and elsewhere rightly occupy column inches. Yet, despite the ongoing plight of Kashmiris, their story goes unreported. This is in spite of Amnesty International's recently renewed concerns about human rights violations and excessive use of military force in the region. Amnesty reports that, under the authoritarian public safety act, described by the Indian supreme court as a "lawless law", hundreds of people are being held in custody each year on spurious grounds, often facing torture. Recent civilian oppression has been met with a resurgence of street protests. We should not turn a blind eye to these events. Lord Nazir Ahmed Andrew Griffiths MP Sir Gerald Kaufman MP Lord Qurban Hussain Andrew Stephenson MP Clive Betts MP Jonathan Lord MP Steve Baker MP Nic Dakin MP John Hemming MP David Nuttall MP Paul Blomfield MP Chris Leslie MP Gavin Shuker MP Kelvin Hopkins MP Debbie Abrahams MP Members of the all-party parliamentary Kashmir group