Isolated at global platform of UNHRC, Pakistan fails to garner required support from member nations on Kashmir

Geneva, September 20: Diplomatically strategizing events, fortifying bilateral ties with robust foreign policies; India has successfully achieved a victorious streak in context to Kashmir issue. In a latest development, Pakistan on Thursday failed to garner the required support at the 42nd UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) session to place a resolution on Kashmir within the stipulated deadline of 1 pm. It was noted that most members of states of UN refused to support Pakistan for placing a resolution on Kashmir.

 

Though Pakistan had made desperate attempts to garner the required support, the neighbour also failed to get the support of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) countries consisting of 57 member states. India`s diplomatic efforts appeared to have clearly paid off by persuading the international community on its ability to manage the affairs of Jammu and Kashmir as an `internal matter` of the country.

Speaking at the UNHRC session, Kumam Mini Devi, First Secretary in the Permanent Mission of India at UNHRC said, “Our decision in Jammu & Kashmir is within our sovereign right and is an internal matter of India. None of Pakistan's attempts to misrepresent our decision can hide its territorial ambitions.”

Adding further she highlighted the human rights violation and atrocities on the people of Gilgit Baltistan and Balochistan by Pakistan. She said, “Let me turn to Pakistan occupied Kashmir & territories under Pak control, cases of enforced disappearances, custodial rapes, murders & torture of civil rights activists & journalists are common practices adopted to silence voices against govt & deep state in Gilgit-Baltistan.”

On September 12 at the UNHRC meeting in Geneva, India firmly rejected Pakistan`s allegations, saying a "fabricated narrative" on Jammu and Kashmir has come from "the epicentre of global terrorism" and from a nation, which conducts cross-border terrorism as a form of `alternate diplomacy`.

The clash occurred after Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi claimed earlier in the day that India had transformed Jammu and Kashmir into a largest "caged prison on this planet" by abrogating Article 370 and that human rights were being "trampled with impunity" there.