Pakistan holds ‘distinctive distinction’ of internet hosting UNSC-designated terrorists: India tells UN

Pakistan has the distinctive distinction of internet hosting essentially the most variety of UNSC designated terrorists and terror organisations, First Secretary of India’s Permanent Mission to UN Seema Pujani stated on the UN.

India asserted that no spiritual minority can freely dwell or observe its faith within the Muslim-majority nation (Photo: ANI)

By Press Trust of India: Pakistan has the “unique distinction” of internet hosting essentially the most variety of UNSC-designated terrorists and terror organisations, and its insurance policies are straight accountable for hundreds of civilian deaths on the planet, India has stated because it slammed Islamabad for its “malicious propaganda” towards it.

Exercising its proper of reply to Pakistan’s assertion on the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva on Friday, India stated when it’s not solely targeted on suppressing its personal inhabitants, Pakistan actively lends its energies to assist, 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 stated.

“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 stated in response to a press release delivered by Pakistan.

Pujani stated 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 stated its leaders and officers ought to focus their energies on working for the good thing about their very own inhabitants as a substitute of “baseless propaganda” towards India.

“Pakistan’s representative has once again chosen to misuse this august forum for its malicious propaganda against India,” she stated.

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Pujani raised the difficulty of enforced disappearances, saying college students, medical doctors, engineers, lecturers, and neighborhood leaders are repeatedly 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 stated.

In her assertion, Pujani additionally expressed remorse over a press release made by Turkiye on the UN session.

“We regret the comments made by Türkiye on a matter that is an internal affair of India and advise it to refrain from making unsolicited comments on our internal matters,” she stated.

Pujani additionally spoke concerning the persecution of non secular minorities in Pakistan and asserted that no spiritual minority can freely dwell or observe its faith within the Muslim-majority nation.

“The Ahmadiya community continues to be persecuted by the state for simply practicing their faith. To even obtain a Pakistani passport, the community has to denounce its founder. Equally worse is the treatment of the Christian community. It is frequently targeted through draconian blasphemy laws.

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“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 stated.

The Indian diplomat stated the state’s crackdown on those that want to increase their voice towards any of those heinous insurance policies can also 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 stated.

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Mar 4, 2023