Geneva/New Delhi: Pakistan created terror outfits against India and the “monster” is now devouring its creator, India’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva said on Wednesday.
Addressing the 34th Session of the Human Rights Council (HRC), India’s Ambassador to the UN, Ajit Kumar, hit out at Pakistan for destabilizing the situation in Jammu and Kashmir by promoting infiltration and cross-border terrorism, inciting, promoting and glorifying violence.
Asserting that terrorism is the “grossest violation of human rights”, Kumar said that UN members will recognize the irony of a nation that has established a well-earned reputation of being a “global epicentre of terrorism holding forth on human rights”.
“Pakistan has created terrorist outfits against India. This monster is now devouring its own creator,” Kumar said, adding that in the last two decades, the most wanted terrorists of the world have found “succour and sustenance” in Pakistan.
The fundamental reason for disturbances in parts of Jammu and Kashmir is cross-border terrorism aided and abetted by Pakistan, Kumar said, adding that Islamabad has been carrying out an intense campaign to destabilize the situation in the border state.
Kumar emphasised that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India and the situation there is an internal matter of the country. The central government and the democratically elected state government have led a system-wide effort last year to restore normalcy in the state in the wake of Pakistan-supported violent unrest, he said in the session’s General Segment.
India would also like to point out that Pakistan’s unwarranted references to UNSC resolutions are “grossly misleading as Pakistan was required to vacate the parts of the State of J&K under its illegal and forced occupation”, Kumar added.
