India pulls up Pakistan at UN; says real problem in Jammu and Kashmir is cross-border terrorism emanating from neighbour

NewsBharati    19-Sep-2018
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Geneva, September 19: India on Wednesday slammed Pakistan in the United Nations Security Council saying that the real problem in Jammu and Kashmir is cross-border terrorism emanating from Pakistan.

 

While exercising its right of reply after Pakistan raised the UN report on Kashmir in the Human Rights Council, India firstly dismissed neighbour’s continued reference to the fallacious and motivated report which has been already out-rightly rejected.

First Secretary in the Permanent Mission of India in Geneva Mini Devi Kumar said, “The real problem in Jammu and Kashmir is cross-border terrorism emanating from Pakistan.”

“The nature and extent of cross-border terrorism is evident from the number of Pakistan terrorists who have been apprehended by our security forces, the huge amount of arms and ammunition that has been recovered from the terrorists and the continued existence of infrastructure of support for the internationally proscribed terrorist groups like Hizbul Mujahideen, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed in Pakistan controlled territories,” she added.


Bringing in the human rights violence and apathy towards the people of PoK, Balochistan and Sindh, Mini Devi Kumar said, “We deplore Pakistan’s repeated and malicious propaganda to distract the world from its gross violation of human rights especially in the territories under its control.”

“The Council may note that concerns have been raised by the international community on the absence of constitutional and civil rights of the people of Gilgit-Baltistan and their sufferings due to deliberate economic policies causing extreme poverty, gross underdevelopment and economic hardships. Large-scale repression, enforced disappearances and extra-judicial killings continue with impunity in Sindh, Baluchistan, Khybar Pakhtunkhwa and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir,” the Indian representative at UN said.

Taking a veil dig at neighbour, the Indian representative at UN said, “It is ironical that a State whose foundation was laid on religious fundamentalism speaks about communal disharmony and religious intolerance. In its obsession with puritanism, it has unleashed systematic persecution against its own Muslim minorities including Shias, Ahmadiyas, Ismailia and Hazaras, who have been reduced to second-class citizens.”

“Pakistan has the dubious distinction of having more cases of persecution under Blasphemy laws than the rest of the world put together. Abductions, forced conversions and marriages of minority – Hindu, Sikh and Christian – women including girls are routinely carried out in Pakistan. The extent to which fundamentalism has been mainstreamed in Pakistan is evident from the fact that a member of the Economic Advisory Council was asked to step down by the new government only because of his Ahmadi faith,” she noted.

In the end, the Indian representative said, “The world does not need lessons on democracy and human rights from Pakistan which has not enjoyed any true democracy since its existence. Indian democracy guarantees constitutional rights to all its citizens and is mature enough to effectively address all challenges including that in Jammu and Kashmir through sufficiently strong and adequate mechanisms.”


On Tuesday this week, India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Syed Akbaruddin said at a Security Council debate on Afghanistan that the Taliban, aided by their supporters, continue to pursue military operations perpetrating violence and destruction, like the recent attack in Ghazni, over several parts of Afghanistan. He also called for crippling the illicit drug trade which provides financial sustenance to these terror outfits.

"These offensives are planned and launched by those who are harboured in safe havens in the neighbourhood of Afghanistan. These sanctuaries have, for years, provided safety for the dark agendas of ideologically and operationally-fused terror networks like the Taliban, Haqqani network, Daesh, Al-Qaeda and its proscribed affiliates such as the Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed," he added.