Image Source : INDIA AT UN, NY/X First Secretary at United Nations for the Second Committee of UNGA Petal Gahlot
Exercising India’s Right of Reply (RoR) on the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, First Secretary at UN for the second UNGA committee Petal Gehlot on Sunday lashed out at Pakistan for changing into a “habitual offender” of misusing multilateral boards to hawk “baseless and malicious” propaganda and referred to as out the human rights abuses towards minorities within the nation.
“As a country with one of the world’s worst human rights records, particularly when it comes to minorities and human rights, Pakistan would do well to put its own house in order before venturing to point a finger at the world’s largest democracy. A glaring example of the systemic violence against minorities in Pakistan was the large-scale brutality perpetrated against the minority Christian community in Jaranwala in Pakistan’s Faisalabad district in August 2023, where a total of 19 churches were gutted and 89 Christian houses were burnt down,” stated Gahlot in a seething assault on Pakistan’s human rights information.
She additionally highlighted that the Ahmediya neighborhood in Pakistan are struggling below related destiny and that the situation of ladies belonging to minority communities in Pakistan notably Hindus, Sikhs and Christians stays deplorable.
“According to a recent report published by Pakistan’s own Human Rights Commission, an estimated 1,000 women from minority communities are subjected to abduction, forced conversion and marriage in Pakistan every year. Pakistan has been the home and patron to the largest number of internationally proscribed terrorist entities and individuals in the world,” stated the First Secretary.
She additionally referred to as on Pakistan to take motion towards the perpetrators of the lethal Mumbai assaults in 2008, cease cross-border terrorism and vacate Indian territories below its “illegal and forcible” occupation. She additionally requested Pakistani authorities to halt grievous human rights violations towards minority communities.
The Kashmir concern
Reiterating that Jammu and Kashmir in addition to Ladakh are integral and inalienable elements of India, Gahlot remarked that Pakistan has no locus standi to touch upon New Delhi’s inside issues given the “glaring” examples of violence towards minority communities there.
“Pakistan has become a habitual offender when it comes to misusing this august forum to pedal baseless and malicious propaganda against India. Member states of the United Nations and other multilateral organizations are well aware that Pakistan does so to deflect the international communities attention away from its own abysmal record on human rights,” stated Gahlot in a seething assault on Islamabad’s human rights information.
On Friday, Pakistan’s caretaker prime minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar raised the Kashmir bogey in his speech on the UNGA, saying that there wouldn’t be peace between New Delhi and Islamabad until the Kashmir concern is resolved. India has repeatedly raised its concern over Pakistan’s assist of cross-border terrorism and has asserted that terror and talks can’t go collectively. India has additionally offered proof at numerous worldwide boards of Pakistan’s assist for terrorist teams.
Pakistan’s human rights information
This comes over a month after a number of church buildings, together with the home of a Christian cleaner, had been vandalised and set ablaze within the Jaranwala city of Faisalabad district by an offended mob over claims of ‘desecrating the Holy Quran’. Over 130 individuals had been arrested in reference to the incident.
Residences of members of the Christian neighborhood had been additionally attacked by the mob, inflicting hundreds of policemen to be deployed within the space to assist set up regulation and order. The district administration additionally imposed Section 144 to forestall any form of meeting.
Additionally, the Ahmadiyya neighborhood, one of many weak communities in Pakistan, noticed one more instance of persecution with the demolition of the minarets of one of many neighborhood’s worship locations in Punjab province in July.
Earlier this 12 months, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) famous an alarming surge in assaults towards the Ahmadi neighborhood members in Punjab province, together with persecution by civil administration in a number of districts.
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