The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and Nonproliferation is meeting Tuesday on human rights in South Asia. The subcommittee’s chairman, Rep. Brad Sherman, a Democrat from California, has said the focus will be on Kashmir, where life has been disrupted for nearly 8 million people. Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers have expressed concern about human rights in Kashmir in recent months. In the statement, Wells also said that direct dialogue between India and Pakistan held the most potential for reducing regional tensions. The House hearing on Tuesday will also take up a citizen registry effort in northeast India that has placed the legal status of about 2 million people in limbo, as well as human rights issues in Pakistan and Sri Lanka, according to Sherman’s office.

Source: thestar October 22, 2019 10:07 UTC