UNITED NATIONS, Jul 03 : A Pakistani delegate has debunked India\u2019s claim that Pakistan was failing to safeguard the rights of its religious minorities,
\ncalling the accusation \u201ca textbook case of the perpetrator posturing as a victim\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cA state that has weaponized hate, normalized mob violence, and codified discrimination against its own citizens \u2013 and against those it occupies \u2013 has no moral standing to speak on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P),\u201d Rabia Ijaz, a second secretary in the Pakistan Mission to the UN, said about India in the UN General Assembly on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The 193-member Assembly held a debate on R2P, a concept aimed at preventing and responding to atrocity crimes, during which Pakistan\u2019s Deputy Permanent Representative, Ambassador Usman Jadoon, said that the doctrine had become \u201cmeaningless\u201d following the international community\u2019s failure to stop the mass killing of civilians in occupied Palestine and Kashmir.<\/p>\n
Reacting to Ambassador Jadoon\u2019s sharp statement, a representative of India accused Pakistan of violating the rights of its minorities, and of its involvement in the recent attack in Pahalgam, Indian occupied Kashmir, as well as claiming that the Himalayan state was its integral part.<\/p>\n
Excercizing her right of reply, Ms. Ijaz, the Pakistani delegate, said, \u201cUnder the (ruling) BJP-RSS regime, India has descended into a majoritarian autocracy where all minorities \u2013 Muslims, Christians, and Dalits live under siege.<\/p>\n
\u201cLynching is met with silence. Bulldozers become tools of collective punishment. Mosques are razed. Citizenship is denied based on religion. This is not the protection of people \u2014 this is their persecution, sanctified by law and celebrated by power.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Jammu and Kashmir, she said India\u2019s claim of it being an \u201cintegral part\u201d or an \u201cinternal matter\u201d was pure political and legal fiction.<\/p>\n
\u201cJammu and Kashmir never was nor is an integral part of India,\u201d the Pakistani delegate said, noting that the UN recognizes it as a disputed territory. Numerous Security Council Resolutions, along with those of the UN Commission for India and Pakistan, reaffirm the right of the Kashmiri people to determine their own future through a free and impartial plebiscite.<\/p>\n
\u201cIndia not only accepted these obligations \u2014 it is bound by Article 25 of the UN Charter to comply. Its refusal to do so constitutes a continuing violation of international law,\u201d Ms. Ijaz said.<\/p>\n
She went in to say that India recently launched an unprovoked and deliberate attack on civilian areas in Pakistan, martyring 35 innocent people.<\/p>\n
About India\u2019s sponsorship of terrorism, the Pakistani delegate said that from the 2014 Army Public School massacre to the recent school bus attack in Khuzdar, the fingerprints of Indian intelligence agencies are evident. \u201cThrough its support to TTP and BLA, India continues to wage covert war against Pakistan.\u201d<\/p>\n
In conclusion, she said, \u201cR2P cannot become a slogan for serial violators to hide behind. It cannot be invoked by those who deny rights at home and export chaos abroad. If the international community is serious about protection, then it must first protect vulnerable populations from the very states that are the perpetrators, including India.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 03 : A Pakistani delegate has debunked India\u2019s claim that Pakistan was failing to safeguard the rights of its religious minorities, calling the accusation \u201ca textbook case of the perpetrator posturing as a victim\u201d. \u201cA state that has weaponized hate, normalized mob […]<\/p>\n
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