Delhi flays Pakistan’s bid to raise Kashmir issue at UN

Islamabad’s law minister had called for UN Human Rights Council’s intervention

India has criticised Pakistan’s attempts to raise the Kashmir issue at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, by denouncing Islamabad as the global “epicentre” of terrorism and accused it of trying to destabilise the state.

“Pakistan has created terrorist outfits against India,” Ajit Kumar, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, told the Council’s meeting on Wednesday.

Earlier, Pakistan’s Law Minister Zahid Hamid had called for the Council’s intervention in Kashmir, asserting that the “human rights of innocent Kashmiris are being trampled upon.”

He denied that there was a terrorism problem in Kashmir and claimed that Islamabad’s involvement was only in providing “political, moral and diplomatic support”.

Rejecting these assertions, Kumar said that Pakistan has been carrying out “an intense campaign to destabilise” the state through “infiltration and cross-border terrorism, inciting, promoting and glorifying violence”, he said.