Pakistan still provide sanctuaries to support dark agendas of terrorist organizations: India in UNSC

New York, March 9: India on Thursday lambasted Pakistan at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting for supporting terrorism and said that challenges posed by cross-border terrorism emanating from safe havens and sanctuaries to Afghanistan and other regions should be addressed soon.

 

While speaking at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting here, India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Syed Akbaruddin humiliated Pakistan without taking its name for supporting terrorism and providing safe haven and sanctuaries to the terrorist organizations which spread terrorism in Afghanistan, India and other regions. He also urged to address this treat soon.

Syed Akbaruddin taking a dig of Pakistan said, "There are still those who provide sanctuaries to support the dark agendas of terrorist organizations like the Taliban, Haqqani Network, ISIS (Islamic State), Al-Qaeda, LeT (Lashkar-e-Taiba) and JeM (Jaish-e-Mohammed)."

India's Permanent Representative to the UN also added that New Delhi welcomed the UNSC's focus on linkages between terrorism, extremism, drug peddling and illegal exploitations of natural resources in Afghanistan. He further stressed that the transnational networks of crime, drugs and terrorism had to be dealt hardly.

Hailing Afghanistan's decision of initiating a new peace plan to the Taliban to end violence in the UNSCX meeting, Syed Akbaruddin said, The Afghan Government issued a new call for peace and proposed a concrete approach to the Taliban to join the mainstream. These efforts by the Afghan Government persuading the Taliban on ending violence and joining the reconciliation process are welcomed."

"It should be clear to the armed opposition that there would be no tolerance for those who continue the violence. Any violence needs a robust response. The irreconcilable guns need to be silenced," he concluded.

Interestingly, India also highlighted human rights violations by Pakistan at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). However, the response came after Pakistan’s foul cry at the UN after it raised the issue of human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir.

In response to Pakistan’s foul cry, Mini Devi Kumam, Second Secretary, India's Permanent Mission at UNHRC, said it had become a habit of Pakistan to misuse the UNHRC platform to make misleading references about internal matters pertaining to Jammu and Kashmir. She stated that Pakistan has long been attempting to mask its territorial ambitions and use of terrorism as a state policy under the guise of concern for human rights.