UN expert slams India's unresponsiveness to queries about rights abuses in Kashmir.

A United Nations (UN) human rights expert has criticized India's inadequate responses to her communications about wide-ranging abuses, including killings, in Indian Occupied Kashmir and vowed to keep the pressure on New Delhi.

At the same time, Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard told a press conference that experts at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Right (OHCHR) could have only a limited impact on the situation in occupied Kashmir.

"The situation in Kashmir is a big concern for many of us within Special Procedures. But it is also a situation where we need to recognize that besides keeping the issue on the agenda, and besides denouncing the violation, I am not sure that we at this point can be asked to have much more impact than that," she said in response to a question at a press conference on Friday.

"It doesn't mean that we are giving up at all but it does mean that there are a number of actors that are probably better placed than Special Procedures to move the issue to a better situation," she added.

Special Procedures of the OHCHR is the official name for its group of independent human rights experts with mandates over specific topics or areas.

Ms. Callamard -- special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions -- spoke to reporters after submitting her annual report to the General Assembly's Third Committee, which deals with social, humanitarian and cultural matters.

She said during past month or so she communicated with Indian authorities about "killings but also violation of access to information, violation of...