Recently, an IFS officer won laurels for her country after she firmly schooled delegates from Pakistan on the contentious issue of Kashmir during the 55th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Exercising India’s “Right to Reply,” IFS officer Ms. Anupama Singh chided the delegates from the neighbouring country by saying that a country with an “abysmal” human rights record like Pakistan had no prerogative to meddle in the internal affairs of other nations.
Ms. Anupama Singh has been serving in the IFS for the past nine years. However, her recent speech, in which she blasted the Pakistani delegates, gave her the chance of a lifetime and pushed her into instant limelight.
Exercising India’s Right “Right to Reply,” Ms. Singh stated, “With regard to the extensive references to India made by Pakistan, we note that it is deeply unfortunate for the Council’s platform to have once again been misused to make patently false allegations against India. The entire Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh is an integral and inalienable part of India, and the constitutional measures taken by the Government of India to ensure socio-economic development and good governance in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir are matters internal to India. Pakistan has no locus standi to pronounce on matters that are internal to India.”
Ms. Singh holds a degree in Administration from Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (2014) and numerous other degrees like an MBA in Finance from the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, and a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering, from Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology. Apart from these, she, on numerous occasions, has displayed her grasp on complex domains like Art, Culture, and Literature.
