ISLAMABAD– Pakistan has slammed India at the UNHCR for its bleak human rights record in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) and for emerging as the largest extremist country where minorities live under constant threat.
Pakistan during the ongoing 46th session of the UN Human Rights Council has decried India’s massive disinformation campaign against Pakistan and drew its attention on New Delhi’s failure to respond to the widely reported Indian grave rights abuses in Occupied Kashmir that evoked international condemnation.
The Council is meeting in Geneva from 22 February to 19 March at the United Nations Office, an event where Pakistan showed the world the real face of India of stifling the voice of Kashmiris.
“As Pakistan highlights India’s atrocities in Occupied Jammu & Kashmir, which have been well-documented by the Office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, UN Mandate Holders (rights experts) and international NGOs, the Council has yet to hear any response from India- a country that claims to be world’s largest democracy but has shamelessly violated every human rights principle, norms and laws,” said Suleman, a second secretary at the Pakistan Mission in Geneva.
Pakistani diplomat Suleman said New Delhi’s “compulsive obsession with Pakistan is neither new nor surprising”, and pointed that the Indian government had deployed tools of deflection, deception and disinformation as evident from the EU DisInfo Lab’s two investigative reports and the “infamous Goswami saga”.
He also mentioned the shuttering of Amnesty International’s office last year and vicious attacks on the UN Human Rights machinery.
Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Khalil Hashmi, on behalf of the OIC demanded revocation of all illegal measures since August 5, 2019, when India illegally annexed the disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir.
