India lambasts Pakistan for raising Kashmir at UN meet

ndia on Wednesday hit out at Pakistan as well as the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for raising the Kashmir issue at the UN Human Rights Commission and said the grouping has “helplessly” allowed itself to be held “hostage” by Islamabad.

At the 48th session of the human rights council, India said Pakistan has been globally recognised as a country openly supporting, training, financing and arming terrorists including UN proscribed terrorists as a matter of state policy.

India’s response was delivered by Pawan Badhe (pic), first secretary in India’s permanent mission in Geneva.

Exercising India’s rights to respond to comments made by Pakistan and the OIC on

Kashmir, Badhe said it does not need lessons from a “failed state” like Pakistan which is the “epicentre of terrorism and worst abuser of human rights”. He said it has become a habit for Pak to misuse the platforms provided by the council to propagate its false and malicious propaganda against India. “India, as not only the world’s largest democracy but a robustly functional and vibrant one, does not need lessons from a failed state like Pakistan, which is the epicentre of terrorism and worst abuser of human rights.”

Badhe said Pakistan has failed to protect the rights of minorities, including Sikhs, Hindus, Christians and Ahmadiyas. "Thousands of women and girls from minorities have been subjected to abductions, forced marriages and conversions in Pak and its occupied territories.”