India slams Pakistan for misuse of UNHRC |
India slams Pakistan for misuse of UNHRC
India has slammed Pakistan for the misuse of the UN Human Rights Council platform for “false and malicious propaganda” against India. Indian representatives at the UN said on 15 September that India “does not need lessons from a failed State like Pakistan which is the epicentre of terrorism and the worst abuser of Human Rights”. India also regretted and rejected the reference made by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to Jammu and Kashmir, saying OIC had no locus standi to comment on the internal affairs of India. Exercising its right of reply to the statements made by Pakistan and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation at the UNHRC, India`s First Secretary at the Indian Mission to UN in Geneva Pawan Badhe said Islamabad has failed to protect the rights of its own minorities.
Badhe said the Council is aware of Pakistan`s attempts to divert the forum`s attention from serious human rights violations being perpetrated by the Islamabad government including in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. Badhe further said Pakistan has been engaged in the systematic persecution, forced conversions, targeted killings, sectarian violence and faith-based discrimination against its ethnic and religious minorities and thousands of women and girls from minority communities have been subjected to abductions, forced marriages and conversions in Pakistan and its occupied territories. He also said the dissenting voices from civil societies, human rights defenders and journalists are muzzled daily in Pakistan, with the support of the Pakistan government. He added that Pakistan is a country that has been globally recognized as one openly supporting, training, financing and arming terrorists including UN proscribed terrorists, as a matter of State policy.
|
|
|
|