GENEVA: Pakistan has the “unique distinction” of internet hosting probably the most variety of UNSC-designated terrorists and terror organisations, and its insurance policies are immediately chargeable for 1000’s of civilian deaths on the earth, India has mentioned because it slammed Islamabad for its ‘malicious propaganda’ in opposition to it. Exercising its proper of reply to Pakistan’s assertion on the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva on Friday, India mentioned when it’s not completely centered on suppressing its personal inhabitants, Pakistan actively lends its energies to help, host and abet worldwide terrorists.
“It has the unique distinction of hosting the most number of UNSC designated terrorists and terror organisations. Osama bin Laden lived next to Pakistan’s premier military academy. Its security agencies have nurtured and sheltered Hafiz Saeed and Masood Azhar for decades,” First Secretary of India’s Permanent Mission to UN Seema Pujani mentioned.
“These are but a few dreaded names from the annals of Pakistan’s history of supporting terrorism. Pakistan’s policies are directly responsible for the death of thousands of civilians around the world,” she mentioned in response to a press release delivered by Pakistan.
Pujani mentioned Pakistan’s obsession with India whereas its inhabitants battle for his or her lives, livelihood and freedom is a sign of the state’s misplaced priorities.
She mentioned its leaders and officers ought to focus their energies on working for the advantage of their very own inhabitants as a substitute of ‘baseless propaganda’ in opposition to India.
“Pakistan’s representative has once again chosen to misuse this august forum for its malicious propaganda against India,” she mentioned.
Pujani raised the problem of enforced disappearances, saying college students, medical doctors, engineers, lecturers, and neighborhood leaders are often disappeared by the State by no means to return.
“Pakistan is a State which responds to any calls for reforms with enforced disappearances. In the last decade, Pakistan’s own Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances has received 8,463 complaints. The Baloch people have borne the brunt of this cruel policy,” she mentioned.
In her assertion, Pujani additionally expressed remorse over a press release made by Turkiye on the UN session.
“We regret the comments made by Turkiye on a matter that is an internal affair of India and advise it to refrain from making unsolicited comments on our internal matters,” she mentioned.
Pujani additionally spoke in regards to the persecution of spiritual minorities in Pakistan and asserted that no non secular minority can freely stay or follow its faith within the Muslim-majority nation.
The Ahmadiya neighborhood continues to be persecuted by the state for merely working towards their religion. To even acquire a Pakistani passport, the neighborhood has to denounce its founder. Equally worse is the remedy of the Christian neighborhood. It is ceaselessly focused by way of draconian blasphemy legal guidelines.
“State institutions officially reserve ?sanitation’ jobs for Christians. Underage girls from the community are converted to Islam abetted by a predatory state and an apathetic judiciary. Hindu and Sikh communities face similar issues of frequent attacks on their places of worship and forced conversion of their underage girls,” she mentioned.
The Indian diplomat mentioned the state’s crackdown on those that want to increase their voice in opposition to any of those heinous insurance policies can be incomparable.
“A bill which proposes a five-year jail term for anyone who ‘scandalises or ridicules’ the military or the judiciary is currently on the table in Pakistan’s Parliament,” she mentioned.
