Ilhan Omar assures to take up HR abuses in IIOJK at Congress.

MUZAFFARABAD -- US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar on Thursday said she would brief the United States Congress and the Biden administration about he human rights violations being committed by the Narendra Modi government in the Illegally Indian Occupied Jammu Kashmir (IIOJK).

The issue of HR abuses in Kashmir was less talked about in the United States and she would try to take up the issue with both the Congress and the Biden administration, she said in a brief chat wit the media after meeting Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Barrister Sultan Mehmood.

Ilhan Omar said, 'We are engaged through a Foreign Office Committee about the question of Kashmir and this question is not as much talked as it should be.'

She said she was visiting the Azad Kashmir to collect the facts and the tour was benefiting her to understand the issue. She would obviously inform her party, the Congress and the Biden administration, besides raising the issue on other forums, she added.

'We held a communication on the Foreign Affairs Committee about human rights violations and anti-Muslim acts of (the) Narendera Modi government and I believe it is...

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