Don't need lesson from failed states; India at UNHRC slams Pakistan and OIC for bringing up Kashmir issue

New Delhi, September 16: Coming down heavily on the Pakistan and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation for raising the Kashmir issue at the UN Human Rights Council, India said, Pak has been misusing multilateral platforms for propagating false propaganda and OIC has also helplessly allowed itself to be held hostage by Pakistan.

 

 

 

While exercising the Right of Reply in response at the 48th session of the UNHRC, India First Secretary, Pawan Badhe said that OIC has no locus standi to comment on the internal affairs of India. OIC has helplessly allowed itself to be held hostage by Pakistan.

 

“We once regret and reject reference made by the OIC to the Union territory of Jammu & Kashmir, which is an integral part of India. The OIC has no locus standi to comment on internal affairs of India,” the Indian envoy to the UN said at the session.

 

 

“OIC has helplessly allowed itself to be held hostage by Pakistan, which holds Chairmanship of their Geneva Chapter, to subserve its Agenda. It’s for members of OIC to decide if it's in their interest to allow Pakistan to do so,” India said at Wednesday's session.

 

The further mounting blistering attack on Pakistan India said it does not need lessons from a failed state like Pakistan which is the "epicentre of terrorism and worst abuser of human rights. It further criticised it saying, Pakistan is a country that has been globally recognised for 'openly supporting, training, financing and arming terrorists including UN proscribed terrorists, as a matter of State policy.'

 

 

 

"Pakistan is a country which has been globally recognised as a country openly supporting, training, financing, and arming terrorists including UN proscribed terrorists, as a matter of state policy," he said.

 

It also highlights incidents of violence against minority communities in Pakistan and said that Pakistan has been engaged in systematic persecution, forced conversions, targeted killings, sectarian violence, and faith-based discrimination against its ethnic and religious minorities.

 

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India in its response further said, UNHRC is "aware of Pakistan's attempts to divert the Council's attention from serious human rights violations being propagated by its government, including in the territories occupied by it.”

 

In August, OCI asked India to revoke steps to scrap the abrogation of the special status of Jammu & Kashmir, and called them “unilateral” and aimed at altering the “internationally recognised disputed status of the territory as stipulated in the relevant UN Security Council resolutions”.

 

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At that time, OIC’s general secretariat also called on the world community to increase its efforts to resolve the Kashmir issue in line with UN Security Council resolutions.

 

 

According to the Shimla agreement, India and Pakistan should settle down any differences by peaceful means and through bilateral negotiations. This clause opposed third-party intervention and insisted on the bilateral mechanism for the resolution of issues between India and Pakistan.

 

Moreover, as per the agreement, both countries shall respect the territorial integrity of each other and not interfere in the internal matters of each other.

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