India raised allegations against Pakistan at a United Nations session on Friday, asserting that human rights conditions in the Pakistani-administered territory of Jammu and Kashmir had deteriorated under military pressure and the exploitation of local communities, and calling on Islamabad to address those conditions.

Addressing the UN General Assembly's Fourth Committee on decolonisation, BJP Member of Parliament Mahima Kumari Mewar called on Pakistan to halt what she described as human rights violations in territories she characterised as under Pakistani occupation. She told delegates that Pakistani armed forces and affiliated groups had, over recent months, killed dozens of civilians who had been demonstrating for basic rights and necessities, and urged the international body to press Pakistan to end what she termed ongoing abuses in areas where the population, in her words, stands in open opposition to military presence, repression, and the exploitation of local resources.

The remarks were offered in direct response to Pakistan's Acting Permanent Representative Usman Jadoon, who had put forward the Kashmir matter for the committee's consideration.

Speaking at the UN forum, Mewar drew on India's stated position to contend that a country carrying Pakistan's particular governance record — one that includes stretches of military administration, contested electoral outcomes, the imprisonment of elected officials, the presence of religious extremist movements, and accusations of deploying non-state armed actors as tools of statecraft — was not well positioned to deliver that category of address at such a venue. She also reaffirmed India's long-held stance that Jammu and Kashmir forms a permanent and integral part of its territory.

Figures drawn from reports cited by India put the death toll from recent unrest in the disputed Kashmir territory administered by Pakistan at more than 90. Demonstrations over disputed election results served as the starting point, but the movement drew in a wider set of grievances — among them, concerns about how natural resources were being extracted, the pressure of rising living costs, and a broader sense that daily conditions had deteriorated.

The organisation known as the Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee, or JAAC, has taken a coordinating role across the wider wave of protests.

Mewar holds a seat in the Lok Sabha for Rajasthan's Rajsamand constituency and is serving on India's delegation at the UN General Assembly. She also voiced support at the session for the worldwide push to end colonial-era structures.

In testimony before the committee, she described the path toward ending colonial rule as a lengthy and demanding one, adding that although more than 80 nations had achieved independence, the broader project of decolonisation was, in her view, still unfinished. Seventeen non-self-governing territories remain listed on the Fourth Committee's agenda, she noted, adding that a practical, grounded approach could yet deliver on the aspirations held by the people of those territories.