GENEVA: India again gave an adequate response to Pakistan at the 45th meeting of the Human Rights Council in the United Nations on Friday saying the world does not need lessons on human rights from a country that has been known as a “hotbed and epicenter of terrorism.”
At the 45th session of the UN Human Rights Council, Senthil Kumar, First Secretary, Permanent Mission of India, Geneva, struck Islamabad and said that Pakistan “takes every opportunity to make baseless and fallacious comments against my country, reflecting its negative and paranoid state of mind.”
“Before preaching to others, Pakistan must remember that terrorism is the worst form of human rights abuse and a crime against humanity. The world does not need lessons on human rights from a country that has been known as’ hotbed and epicenter of terrorism ‘, “he said.
Kumar went on to point out that enforced disappearances, state violence and forced mass displacement, harassment, extrajudicial killings, army operations, torture, killings and landfills, torture camps, detention centers and camps The military “are common features” in Baluchistan, adding that “No one knows the fate of the 47,000 Baloch and 35,000 Pashtuns missing to date. Sectarian violence has claimed more than 500 hazaras in Baluchistan and more than 100,000 hazaras have fled Pakistan “.
“The Baluchis have never felt safe inside Balochistan and now they don’t feel safe even outside Pakistan. The case of Rashid Hussain’s disappearance in December 2018, and the murder of journalist Sajid Hussain Baloch after his disappearance in March of 2020, it only goes to show that Baloch human rights defenders are being targeted and eliminated even after they left Pakistan, “he added.
The First Secretary further noted that it was “cause for great concern” that Pakistan’s religious minority population, which was 23% in 1947, has been reduced to negligible numbers.
The reasons are not hard to find. Systemic discrimination and persecution through assassinations, violence, forced conversions, forced displacement have almost wiped out religious minorities in Pakistan. In Pakistani-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan has achieved demographic change by shrinking and pushing Kashmir out, “he added.
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