UNITED NATIONS, Oct 18 (APP): Pakistan told a U.N. panel that human rights are being trampled with impunity in many places, with the \u201cmost egregious\u201d abuses taking place in the occupied territories of Palestine and Kashmir.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese violations of human rights are turbo-charged by the rise of racism, fascism, hate speech and ethnic and religious discrimination and rising Islamophobia,\u201d Ambassador Munir Akram said in his address to the General Assembly\u2019s Third Committee, which deals with social, humanitarian and cultural matters, on Tuesday.
\n\u201cIt is sad that those who are so eager to criticize human rights violations elsewhere fall silent when it comes to India\u201d, he said, underscoring that it was time for the UN to speak out and press India to halt the human rights violations in occupied Kashmir and against its minorities.<\/p>\n
Turning to the alarming situation in Gaza, the Pakistani envoy called for an unconditional ceasefire and immediate assistance to the people of Palestine.<\/p>\n
Participating in a debate on \u2018Promotion and Protection of Human Rights\u2019, Ambassador Akram said that Islamophobia was practiced in its \u201cmost pernicious form\u201d by the Hindutva zealots ruling India.<\/p>\n
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh\u2019s ideology replicates the last century\u2019s fascism in Europe, he said, spotlighting massive violations of human rights in the illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir and against India\u2019s 200 million Muslims, as well as Christians, Sikhs and the so-called lower castes \u2013 the Dalits.<\/p>\n
\u201cBetween 2014 \u2013 when (Prime Minister) Mr. (Narendra) Modi assumed power \u2013 and 2018, there was a 786% increase in hate speech against minorities, especially Muslims (as noted by the UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues),\u201d The Pakistani envoy said.<\/p>\n
Anti-Muslim pogroms, he said, had taken place in Gujarat in 2002, when over 2000 Muslim men, women and children were massacred when Modi was the chief minister of the state, adding that Christians have also been targeted, as witnessed in the organized rape of their women, by Hindutva fueled militants in Manipur State.<\/p>\n
New Citizenship Laws aim to exclude and reduce India\u2019s 200 million Muslims to second-class status, Ambassador Akram said,<\/p>\n
\u201cMuslims are lynched almost daily by Hindu \u201ccow vigilantes\u201d, he said, adding their homes are bulldozed as collective punishment. Hindu priests have called for genocide against India\u2019s Muslims.<\/p>\n
The Hindutva regime, he said, was obliterating India\u2019s Islamic legacy\u2013 the Babri Mosque, destroyed by a Hindu mob in 1992, has been replaced by a Hindu temple, with several hundred mosques across India now facing similar destruction.<\/p>\n
Hindutva ideologues were re-writing history, eliminating and changing place names of major Muslim monuments, it was pointed out.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe world should be greatly disturbed by what is happening in India; Hindu fascism could lead to widespread ethnic\/religious cleansing,\u201d Ambassador Akram warned, adding that the BJP-RSS government also poses a threat to regional and international peace and security.<\/p>\n
\u201cPrior to each election in India, the BJP-RSS have resorted to some violent adventure \u2014 the aerial attack against Pakistan in 2019 was one such adventure,\u201d he added<\/p>\n
\u201cThe sense of impunity experienced by this extremist regime has further fueled its aggressive and belligerent posture,\u201d the Pakistani envoy said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 18 (APP): Pakistan told a U.N. panel that human rights are being trampled with impunity in many places, with the \u201cmost egregious\u201d abuses taking place in the occupied territories of Palestine and Kashmir. \u201cThese violations of human rights are turbo-charged by the […]<\/p>\n
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