‘Pakistan A Failed State, Surviving On International Aids’: India Takes Down Neighbour At UN
India on Thursday slammed Pakistan at the seventh meeting of the 58th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), stating.
That the country was a “failed state” that was surviving on international handouts. Kshitij Tyagi, India’s Permanent Mission to the UN in Geneva, said that the Pakistani leadership was spreading falsehoods dictated by their military-terrorist complex.
“It is regrettable to see Pakistan’s leaders and delegates continuing to spread falsehoods handed down by its military terrorist complex. Pakistan is making a mockery of the OIC by abusing it as its mouthpiece. It is unfortunate that this Council’s time continues to be wasted by a failed state that thrives on instability and survives on international handouts. Its rhetoric reeks of hypocrisy, its actions of inhumanity, and its governance of incompetence. India remains focused on democracy, progress, and ensuring dignity for its people — values that Pakistan would do well to learn from,” Tyagi said in a strong-worded statement at the UN.
India Slams Pakistan On Kashmir Issue
Stepping up his scathing rebuttal of Pakistan, he said that the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh will always be an integral part of India, and the progress in the region in the last few years “speaks for itself”, which is in contrast to Pakistan’s claims of unrest.
“The Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh will always remain an integral and inalienable part of India. The unprecedented political, social, and economic progress in J&K in the past few years speaks for itself. These successes are a testament to the people’s trust in the government’s commitment to bring normalcy to a region scarred by decades of Pakistan-sponsored terrorism. As a country where human rights abuses, persecution of minorities, and systematic erosion of democratic values constitute state policies and which brazenly harbours UN-sanctioned terrorists, Pakistan is in no position to lecture anyone,” Tyagi said.
India said that Pakistan lacked credibility to speak on the issues of human rights or democracy as it has a track record of persecution of minorities and harbouring of internationally sanctioned terrorists.
“Instead of its unhealthy obsession with India, Pakistan should focus on providing actual governance and justice to its own people,” he said.
India’s latest statement came in response to a strong remark made on February 19 by its Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish.
Speaking at an Open Debate of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), Harish firmly countered Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister’s reference to Jammu and Kashmir, stating, “The Deputy PM and Foreign Minister of Pakistan have mentioned an integral and inalienable part of India— the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir— in his remarks. I reaffirm that Jammu and Kashmir has been, is, and will always remain an integral and inalienable part of India.”