Geneva, Sept. 25 -- Kashmiri human rights defender Javed Ahmad Beigh raised concerns over the detention and harassment of activists from Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (PoGB) during his intervention at the 63rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva.

Beigh urged the UNHRC to take immediate cognizance of what he described as the frequent illegal incarceration of activists from PoGB and called on Pakistan to end what he alleged was the misuse of anti-terrorism laws.

He spoke about the alleged ill-treatment of Ehsan Ali, Chairman of PoGB's Awami Action Committee, along with Nusrat Hussain, Mehboob Wali, Nafees and Mehar Ali. According to Beigh, they were placed under the "Fourth Schedule" of Pakistan's Ant...