Terming the European Parliament's draft report on Jammu and Kashmir, which rejected Islamabad's demand for plebiscite in the state as 'exceedingly partisan and one sided,' Pakistan's Ambassador to the United Kingdom Maleeha Lodhi has claimed that it 'unquestioningly endorsed the Indian stand' on the Kashmir issue.
The EU report prepared by the British Member of European Parliament Baroness Emma Nicholson last month termed Pakistan's demand to hold plebiscite in Kashmir as 'wholly out of step with the needs of the local (Kashmiri) people and thus damaging their interests' and as being 'extremely partisan and one sided,' Lodhi was quoted as saying by The News in Islamabad.
The report reads like a 'harangue on Pakistan, misrepresenting our position in sharp contrast to unquestioning endorsement of Indian stand point,' she said.
Lodhi, who began lobbying in the UK against the EU report, which would go for vote in European Parliament in March 2007, said the criticism against Pakistan in the EU report is unwarranted and based on 'anything but facts on the ground.'
The author of the EU report laments poverty in POK but does not echo that concern with regard to the political, economic and social conditions in J&K, she said.
Last week, Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam dismissed the report as the one written by an 'individual.'
Lodhi's criticism of the report came as British parliamentarian Rowen Paul along with another member of the British Parliament moved a motion in the House of Commons calling for a more 'balanced' EU report, the newspaper said.
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