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UNITED NATIONS: A Pakistani diplomat has hit back after an Indian delegate accused Pakistan of being a sponsor and promoter of terrorist acts, asserting that India practices state-sponsored terrorism as policy at home and abroad.<\/p>\nUNITED NATIONS: A Pakistani diplomat has hit back after an Indian delegate accused Pakistan of being a sponsor and promoter of terrorist acts, asserting that India practices state-sponsored terrorism as policy at home and abroad.<\/p>\n
According to Kashmir Media Service, Saima Saleem, a counsellor at the Pakistan Mission to the United Nations, said while exercising her right of reply in the UN General Assembly, said, \u201cIts (India\u2019s) hypocrisy is well exposed; It cannot hide anymore its aiding, abetting, and financing of terrorism in Pakistan, its covert terrorist networks across the region, and its reign of terror in occupied Kashmir,\u201d.<\/p>\n
Ms Saima Saleem was reacting to the statement made by India\u2019s delegate Ms Petal Gahlot in response to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif\u2019s sharp speech earlier in the day in which he made a pointed reference to the brief military conflict with India in May when Pakistan\u2019s valiant armed forces repelled an \u201cunprovoked aggression\u201d with \u201cstunning professionalism\u201d, shooting down seven Indian aircraft.<\/p>\n
In her response, the Indian delegate accused Pakistan of \u201cglorifying terrorism\u201d and shielding terrorist outfits like the Resistance Front (TRF), which India claimed carried out the Pahalgam attack, although the group denied any involvement.<\/p>\n
Rebutting the Indian allegations about terrorism, Ms Saima Saleem said, \u201cThrough its proxies like TTP (Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan), BLA (Balochistan Liberation Army) and (its) Majeed Brigade, Indian-sponsored terrorism has not just claimed lives of thousands of innocent civilians in Pakistan, it has turned places of worship, learning, and livelihood into sites of carnage.\u201d<\/p>\n
She referred to Pakistan\u2019s sacrifices in the global fight against terrorism, saying, \u201cThis forum certainly needs no sermons from an aggressor, occupier, and perpetrator of state-sponsored terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pakistan, she added, not only condemned but also called for credible, impartial, and independent investigations into the Pahalgam incident. \u201cIf India had nothing to hide, it should have agreed to such investigations.\u201d<\/p>\n
Before, during, and after the conflict, Ms Saima Saleem said Pakistan maintained a principled and calibrated approach, avoiding harm to civilians and civilian infrastructure.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen its adventurism collapsed in defeat, it resorted to excuses, but the truth could not be concealed. The bubble of hubris has burst, the myth of military might shattered, and the irrefutable evidence of Indian losses has been provided by the international community.\u201d<\/p>\n
India\u2019s holding in abeyance of the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty has unmasked it as a blatant violator of international law, the Pakistani diplomat said, adding that by weaponizing water, it has demonstrated that it is a state that threatens regional peace, denies millions right to water and breaches the sanctity of a humanitarian treaty.<\/p>\n
Under RSS-BJP dispensation in India, she said Muslims are lynched for their faith, Christians assaulted for their worship, Sikhs for their identity, and Dalits dehumanized for their caste.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe world has not forgotten Gujarat where thousands of Muslims were butchered under state patronage; Delhi when mobs rampaged while police looked away; Manipur where hundreds were killed and thousands displaced. India\u2019s record is written not only in blood but also in words \u2014 hateful rhetoric from its highest leaders, open calls for genocide, and a pliant media feeding bigotry. In incredibly intolerant India, Islamophobia today is institutionalized in law, normalized in politics, and glorified in the media.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beyond its borders, she said India bullies neighbours, blocks regional cooperation, exports violence abroad through extrajudicial assassinations, and funds proxies to destabilize the region. \u201cThis is the face of \u2018New India\u2019: Islamophobia at home, aggression abroad, with Hindutva ideology at its core\u201d.<\/p>\n
As regard the disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir, Ms. Saleem said that it is not, and has never been, an integral part of India, pointing out that with 900,000 occupation troops, Jammu and Kashmir has been turned into one of the world\u2019s most militarized zones.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe outcome is tragically consistent: imposition of draconian laws and thousands of fake encounters, enforced disappearances, unmarked graves, custodial killings, systematic sexual violence, and regular media blackouts. Since August 2019, India has accelerated its settler-colonial project through unlawful demographic engineering in a territory where decolonization remains unfinished\u201d.<\/p>\n
Pakistan, she said, will continue to expose India\u2019s hypocrisy \u2014 its occupation, double standards, denial of human rights of the Kashmiris and its disinformation war.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will not let hollow rhetoric distract from the core issue: the people of Jammu and Kashmir deserve justice, dignity, and freedom by exercising their right to self-determination, and they shall have freedom one day,\u201d she maintained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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