The entering of Amnesty as part of India and Pakistan diplomatic spat the veracious issue appears is getting unwanted spotlight with no positive outcome visible. What makes Amnesty to take up cudgel for killing of militants? What right it has got to meddle into India’s internal matters? Where was it when Indian soldiers were hacked and when Pakistan mutilated the bodies of soldiers? Being a non-governmental organisation its continuing support to Kashmiri terror groups is condemnable. They should be transparent, accountable and impartial and to defend human rights in the future, organisations must be able to look at their own institutional failures. The NGO which allegedly turned into a platform for anti-India, anti-army and pro-freedom in Kashmir such organisations have “ideological bankruptcy” as far as its own stand is concerned. This is not the first time the NGO is dealing with terror groups it was in limelight in dealing with Cage, an Islamist advocacy group headed by Moazzam Begg, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee and Britain’s most famous supporter of the Taliban and it’s typical of Amnesty to claim to be neutral on `the right to self-determination’ while giving more space to people who give it political support. Amnesty was always battling between people promoting Jihadis and trying to get them included on research missions and treat Jihadis as human rights defenders. It failed to examine Begg’s early support for Jihad when deciding to partner with him. Amnesty’s history on Palestine is similar; it gives space to Hamas supporters rather than secular and human rights voices from Palestine. Why is that the NGO had to stage a discussion on Kashmir in a Bengaluru college a seminary founded in 1910 offering courses in Theological studies. Was the discussion orgnaised to make the Kashmir issue as a religious one rather than a political one. The organisers it looked like to play minority card to gain public support to the issue and to flare up the sentiments in down south.
