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India hits out at Pak at UNHRC in Geneva for engaging in violation of human rights at Kashmir

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India on Thursday slammed Pakistan at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), accusing it of engaging in the grossest violation of human rights by exporting terrorism to Jammu and Kashmir.

“Terrorism is the grossest violation of human rights. The real problem in the State of Jammu and Kashmir is terrorism, which has constantly received sustenance from Pakistan and territories under its control,” Mini Devi Kumam, Second Secretary, India’s Permanent Mission at UNHRC.

India gave befitting response to Pakistan for raising the issue of human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir. As per Kumam, Pakistan had been habitually misusing the UNHRC platform to deceive the world on internal matters pertaining to Jammu and Kashmir.

“This Council should be mindful that the dubious concern for human rights is coming from a country, which has systematically abused and violated the human rights of the people in Baluchistan, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as well as Pakistan-occupied Kashmir,” the Indian official said at the 37th Session of UNHRC.

She added that “Pakistan has long been attempting to mask its territorial ambitions and use of terrorism as a state policy under the guise of concern for human rights”.

India also pressed the UNHRC to call on Pakistan to end cross-border infiltration. Along with it, Pakistan should also dismantle special terrorist zones, safe havens and sanctuaries, and to take verifiable actions, including on terror financing.

Further Kumam also called on the UNHRC to ask Pakistan to offer freedom to the people of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir by putting an end to its illegal and forcible occupation.

India also highlighted some of the misuses of blasphemy laws in Pakistan. Kumam pointed out that Islamabad should end harassment of minorities and place procedural and institutional safeguards to prevent its misuse. Demands were also made to Pakistan that the country should end forced conversions and marriages of minorities, including Hindu, Sikh and Christian women, and prosecute all such cases.

India also highlighted enforced disappearances and unlawful killing of political dissidents by the Pakistani security forces.

“We urge the Council to call on Pakistan to stop targeting political dissidents and legitimate criticism in Sindh, Baluchistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and to stop torture, enforced disappearances and unlawful killing, including that of journalists and activists by its security agencies. Pakistan should also prosecute all perpetrators of such crimes,” said Kumam.

India further demanded an end of sectarian violence, systemic persecution and attacks on Muslim minorities, such as Shia, Ahmadiyas, Ismailia and Hazaras in Pakistan.

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