ISLAMABAD, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan said Thursday it allows the UN to send a team to its part of Kashmir, days after India turned down request by the UN rights council to travel to the Indian-controlled Kashmir to investigate the alleged rights violations.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had written to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHRC) Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein to "end the persistent and egregious violation of the basic human rights of the Kashmiri people."
The Indian media had reported that a meeting of all political parties in India presided over by Prime Minister Narendra Modi this week dismissed the UNHRC's request to visit Kashmir.
But Pakistan's Foreign Ministry spokesman Nafees Zakaria said his country has no objection if the UN wants to send any team.
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