Senior Advocate Bhan delivers lecture on ‘Human Rights Day’

New Delhi, Dec 10: Senior Supreme Court Advocate Ashok Bhan on the occasion of Human Rights Day delivered a guest lecture to the students of Delhi Law School,
He said all sections of society collectively including Kashmiris deserves respect for human rights doctrine and strive for end of violence.
He said respect for human rights of all the sections of the society is Sine Qua Non for enforcement of constitutionalism, justice, democracy, development and for winning the hearts of the people.
Bhan said in South Asia the human Rights violation at the hands of terrorists is galore. “It is being encouraged by a nation state that pursues terrorism as an instrument of its national and Foreign policy and brazenly provides all the overt and covert support by way of arms, funding, strategic and other logistic support including Drone cover ups to terrorists indulging in their terror activities on the soil of India especially in the Jammu & Kashmir.”
While referring to Kashmir Pandits, he said a native population of seven hundred thousand has been exiled by using the tactics of one targeted killing and scaring a thousand population in densely habituated areas of the Valley.
Bhan said the currently drug menace is a huge problem associated with terrorism in Jammu & Kashmir and vulnerable youth are dragged in this dangerous path by handlers of terror modules.
Bhan said women empowerment is a crucial aspect of fostering gender equality.