APPKG Chairperson concerned about rising tensions in South Asia.

ISLAMABAD -- Member of British Parliament and Chairperson of the All-Party Parliamentary Kashmir Group (APPKG), Debbie Abrahams, has expressed concern over the rising tensions in South Asia preceding last August's developments in Kashmir and more recently the movement of Indian and Chinese troops at Pangong Lake and in the Galwan Valley in Ladakh.

Debbie Abrahams in a letter addressed to the UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, wrote that the role of the APPKG was to support dispassionately and without political prejudice the Kashmiri people in their pursuit of their human rights and a sustainable, lasting peace in the region, reported.

She said in addition to the 2018 and 2019 United Nations reports on human rights violations in Kashmir, she and the APPG officers are concerned about rising tensions in the region.

'We are very concerned about military hostilities between India and China, including reported casualties on both sides and the recent deaths of at least 20 Indian soldiers following clashes at the Line of Actual Control in the Galwan Valley. China has not yet confirmed how many of its personnel died or injured but it has been reported in some media outlets that this is in excess of 40 Chinese soldiers. The deaths are the first at the disputed border area in at least 45 years,' Debbie Abrahams added.

In her letter, she informed the UK prime minster that in May, the Indian and Chinese armies were also involved in clashes on the border in the north-eastern state of Sikkim. Meanwhile Nepal...