- Envoy calls India’s democracy demands for gaps under the RSS-BJP rule.
- Says India finances terrorist groups such as TTP, among other things to destabilize Pakistan.
- Pakistan’s measured response averted escalation after Indian aggression.
Pakistan launched a strong return to India in the United Nations and exposed what it called New Delhi’s “recycled manuscript of distortions” over Jammu and Kashmir.
Asif Khan, a diplomat from Pakistan’s permanent mission to the UN, said India’s attempt to mislead the world on the status of the disputed territory had not hidden the reality of its occupations.
“I am forced to take the floor to respond to the disinformation -loaded comments from the representative of India. Every year India comes to this August Forum with a recycled scripture. Today it is no different,” Khan said, opening his statement.
He claimed that “the United Nations are not only right, but the obligation to discuss the Jammu and Kashmir -thin”, adding that the territory “has never been an integral part of India” and remains “an internationally recognized disputed territory whose final status is to be determined through a free and impartial plebiscite under Auspics in the united nation.”
Khan recalled the forum that “India himself had brought the matter to the council, yet refuses to honor his solemn obligations under international law and the charter of the United Nations.”
With reference to the 1960 statement, he said the “decrees that ‘all peoples’ under foreign submission is entitled to self-determination’-a right, which is also embedded in the UN-Charter and the most important international covenants.
He highlights the extent of Indian militarization in the region and said, “In occupied Jammu and Kashmir, India maintains one of the closest military professions in the world and deployed nearly 900,000 troops against an unpredicted civilian population.”
He accused India of “branding the righteous struggle for the people of Jammu & Kashmir as terrorism,” while refusing to “introspect to find the real reasons behind the mass resistance of the occupied territory.”
“India’s backtracking from its obligations under the UNSC decisions, its disagreement with denying the Kashmiri people their fundamental rights, extracurricular murder, enforced disappearance, mass catchers, sexual violence and demographic technique are the real reasons for the original freedom of freedom,” he said.
“Since August 2019, India has accelerated its newbuilding colonial project in obvious violation of the fourth Geneva Convention.”
Khan also accused that India “seeks to divert attention from his own notorious behavior, junk behavior, and committed terrorism,” which calls it “the most important sponsor of state terrorism in the region with a questionable distinction of extraterratritorial assaults.”
He accused India of funding and instructing “Terrorist Proxes such as TTP, Bla and Majeed Brigade, whose attacks have killed thousands of innocent civilians in Pakistan.”
He described India’s claim to be the world’s greatest democracy as a “hole” and said it had become “the world’s largest producer of disinformation and intolerance.”
He said the ruling RSS-BJP ideology had “institutionalized Islamophobia and transformed persecution of minorities into state policy,” added that “several international human rights organizations continue to document India’s systematic abuse.”
Warning about the dangers of Pred, Khan said that India’s “reckless behavior has threatened regional security”, citing “unprovoked aggression against Pakistan earlier this year, which is aimed at civilians, including women and children.”
“Pakistan exerted his inherent right to self-defense under Article 51 of the UN Charter and responded in a measured manner aimed solely at military targets,” he noted, adding that “India was suffering significant losses, including several aircraft.”
He concluded that “India’s denials and distortions cannot erase the simple truth: Jammu and Kashmir remain a contentious territory.”
“The people of Kashmir have been waiting for over seven decades to exercise their non-mandated right to self-determination,” Khan said. “Pakistan will continue to postpone India’s hypocrisy, oppose its state terrorism, and support Kashmiri’s righteous and legitimate struggle for justice, dignity and freedom.”
