India exercised its right of reply to Pak’s allegations at the United Nations General Assembly. (File)
New York:
Hours after Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan raised the Kashmir issue at the 75th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Friday, India quickly responded to Imran Khan’s comments and called on the United Nations to take the floor to exercise the right of reply in response to Pakistan’s statements.
Indian delegate Mijito Vinito, who had previously left the room when Imran Khan’s prerecorded statement was released, introduced the India stand.
In a very strong response, India said: “The Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir is an integral and inalienable part of India. The rules and legislation introduced in the Union Territory of Jammu -and Kashmir are strictly internal affairs of India. ”
Previously, Imran Khan said: “Pakistan has always called for a peaceful solution. To this end, India must reverse the measures it has imposed since August 5 in 2019 ”.
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Responding to the Pakistani Prime Minister, India firmly declared: “The only dispute that remains in Kashmir concerns the part of Kashmir which is still under illegal occupation by Pakistan. We call on Pakistan to leave all areas it illegally occupies. “
Imran Khan’s virtual speech contained the same assertions and allegations against India that he raised in recent speeches to multilateral bodies.
After his speech, TS Tirumurti, India’s permanent representative to the UN, tweeted that the country would use the “Right of Reply” feature to respond to Imran Khan’s speech.
“This room heard the incessant speech of someone who had nothing to show for himself, who had no success to speak of, and no reasonable suggestion to offer to the world. Instead, we have seen lies, disinformation, warmongering and malice spread through it The words used today in this Grand Assembly by the leader of Pakistan (Imran Khan) denigrate the very essence of the United Nations, ”said Mijito Vinito, First Secretary of the Mission of India to the United Nations.
India exercised its right of reply after all the speeches from countries during the high-level segment of the 75th session of the UNGA which ended on Friday. This is usually when countries begin to exercise the right to respond to statements made by any other country against them.
The Pakistani Prime Minister’s anti-India statement on Friday and India’s response make this India’s third right of reply, the first two were also made in response to Pakistan who raised the Jammu issue -and Kashmir at the 75th UNGA underway earlier this week.
Mr. Vinito said Imran Khan “is the same person who called terrorist Osama Bin Laden a” martyr “in his parliament in July.”
He added: “For a nation deeply buried in medievalism, it is understandable that the principles of modern civilized society such as peace, dialogue and diplomacy are far-fetched.”
“This is the country that caused the genocide in South Asia 39 years ago by killing its own people. It is also the country that is shameless enough not to offer a sincere apology for the horrors it has perpetrated even after so many years. It is the same country which provides pensions to the terrorists feared and listed on state funds. It is the same country that has the dubious distinction of hosting the largest number of terrorists banned by the United Nations, ”he added.
Referring to the Prime Minister of Pakistan, he said: “The same leader who spat venom today admitted in public in the United States in 2019 that his country still has around 30,000 to 40,000 Pakistan-trained terrorists. and who fought in Afghanistan and Afghanistan. the territory of the Indian Union of Jammu and Kashmir. It is the country that has systematically cleansed its minorities, including Hindus, Christians, Sikhs and others, by abusing its blasphemy laws and through forced religious conversions. “
Pakistan has been called “someone who claims to be a champion of Islam, it is also a country which encouraged the murder of fellow Muslims simply because they belonged to another sect or region. Pakistan, and by sponsoring terrorist attacks against its neighbors, ”he added.
The First Secretary said: “What should be on the UN agenda instead is the Pakistani Deep State and its continued political and financial support for terrorist organizations and mercenaries who pose a threat. for world peace and security. The only crown that this country has to show the world over the past 70 years is terrorism, ethnic cleansing, majority fundamentalism and the underground nuclear trade. “
“The only way for Pakistan to become a normal country is to renounce its moral, financial and material support for terrorism, to turn its attention to the problems facing its own people, including its minorities, and to stop misuse UN platforms to advance its nefarious agenda, ”the statement concluded.
