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“Unofficial”: US On Ilhan Omar’s PoK Visit After India Condemnation

Apr 22, 2022 | Pratirodh Bureau

Ilhan Omar (right) with Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry, president of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (Pakistan's name for PoK) {Reuters}

US lawmaker Ilhan Omar’s meeting with recently ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and her “unofficial, personal” visit to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir or PoK did not represent the United States government in any way, an official said.

India had on Thursday condemned Ms Omar’s visit to Pak-occupied Kashmir as violative of India’s territorial integrity and sovereignty and that it reflected her “narrow-minded” politics.

The Democratic Congresswoman is on a four-day visit to Pakistan that began on April 20. On Wednesday, she met Imran Khan as well as visited a part of PoK.

Speaking to news agency ANI, Derek Chollet, counselor to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said, “It’s an unofficial, personal visit and it does not represent any policy change on behalf of the United States government.”

Ms Omar, a Somali-American who belongs to President Joe Biden’s Democratic Party, had after her visit to PoK said “Kashmir should get more attention from the United States”, which elicited stern condemnation from India.

“I don’t believe that it (Kashmir) is being talked about to the extent it needs to in Congress but also with the administration,” Ms Omar told reporters after visiting PoK.

Condemning her visit to PoK, External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi told reporters in New Delhi at a media briefing, “Let me just say that if such a politician wishes to practice her narrow-minded politics at home, that’s her business. But violating our territorial integrity and sovereignty… makes this ours, and we think the visit is condemnable,” Mr Bagchi said.

The Islamabad visit by Omar, who represents Minnesota in the US House of Representatives, is the first by an American legislator since the new Pakistan government took office. Her meeting with Imran Khan at his residence at Bani Gala has been criticised since the ousted Pakistan PM had accused Washington of conspiracy to dislodge his government.

When asked what the US made of the meeting, in particular, Mr Chollet said, “Congresswoman’s visit was a personal visit. It was not something that the State Department helped to organise so I don’t have much to comment on it. Because it was a visit made in her personal capacity.”

Ms Omar is the first naturalised citizen of African birth to sit in the US Congress. She has been a vocal critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and has previously questioned Biden administration officials over what she said was their “failure” to criticize the Indian government on the issue of human rights and its actions against its Muslim minorities in India.

 

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