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India on Friday on the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) debate exercised its ‘Right of Reply’ and slammed the remarks made by Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on minorities in India and the difficulty of Kashmir. India reminded Pakistan to introspect earlier than levelling false allegations towards India.
Indian diplomat Mijito Vinito, on the difficulty, emphasised that as a substitute of creating claims over Jammu and Kashmir, Islamabad ought to cease “cross-border terrorism”.
He additional questioned, “When young women in the thousands from the minority community are abducted as an SOP, what can we conclude about the underlying mindset?”
“It is regrettable that the Prime Minister of Pakistan has chosen the platform of this august assembly to make false accusations against India. He has done so to obfuscate misdeeds in his own country and to justify actions against India that the world considers unacceptable,” he mentioned.
“A polity that claims it seeks peace with its neighbours would never sponsor cross-border terrorism. Nor would it shelter planners of the horrific Mumbai terrorist attack, disclosing their existence only under pressure from the international community,” Vinito mentioned.
Reminding the world physique of the atrocities towards minorities, the Indian diplomat referred to latest incidents of pressured abduction and marriage of women from Hindu, Sikh and Christian households in Pakistan and “conversions within Pakistan,” he mentioned.
“It is about human rights, about minority rights and about basic decencies,” the Indian diplomat mentioned.
“Such a country would not make unjustified and untenable territorial claims against neighbours. It would not covet their lands and seek to illegally integrate them with its own. But it is not just about the neighbourhood that we have heard false claims today,” he mentioned.
“The desire for peace, security and progress in the Indian subcontinent is real. It is also widely shared. And it can be realized. That will surely happen when cross-border terrorism ceases, when governments come clean with the international community and their own people, when minorities are not persecuted and, not least, when we recognize these realities before this Assembly,” he mentioned.
Earlier, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif spoke concerning the Kashmir subject within the UNGA. He made false allegations towards India accusing it of turning Kashmir right into a Hindu-majority territory, by way of unlawful demographic modifications.
Prior to that, Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari had additionally raised the Kashmir subject in New York This got here at a time when the nation is going through devastating floods. Zardari raked up the Kashmir subject and mentioned that Islamabad hasn’t seen any indicators of rebuilding relations with India whereas talking throughout a query and reply session following the tackle to The Council of Foreign Relations in New York.
