India Vs. Pakistan On Human Rights Violations

Brut India

India and Pakistan tore into each other yet again at a UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva.

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00:00This poster child of terrorist organization RSS continues to employ state-sponsored terrorism

00:05to disseminate its own minorities and brutally suppress the Kashmiri people in pursuance

00:09of a new fascist Hindutva project.

00:12They say in Imran Khan's Naya Pakistan, you may not return home.

00:17Targeting of journalists through threats, assaults, arrests, instilling extreme fear

00:21and self-censorship exposes the fallacy of Pakistan's so-called military-run democratic

00:27system.

00:29It will be better for Pakistan to set its own house in order before it speaks about

00:33others.

00:49We are once again disappointed to see that India continues to mislead this council about

00:54its despicable human rights crimes and Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir pertaining

00:59to arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance through peddling fabricated narratives and

01:04falsifying facts.

01:05Mr. Vice President, yet again, though we are not surprised, Pakistan has twice chosen to

01:11divert the attention of the council with its imposterous political propaganda full of disinformation

01:18and gratuitous references about India's internal matters today.

01:22It will be better for Pakistan to set its own house in order before it speaks about

01:27others.

01:28Pakistan's intervention in the two IODs today were based on actual events reported from

01:33India-occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

01:35The UN Security Council has thrice met to discuss the dire post-5 August situation in

01:40occupied territory, which clearly debunks India's self-serving claims of normalcy and

01:45Kashmir being an integral part.

01:48They say in Imran Khan's Naya Pakistan, you may not return home.

01:52Mr. Vice President, let me turn to Pakistan.

01:55Occupied parts of Indian Union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, cases of

02:00enforced disappearances, murders, detentions, custodial deaths and torture of civil rights

02:05activists, representatives of local political parties and journalists are common and a standard

02:09practice adopted to silence voices against the government and deep state in Jiljit Baltistan.

02:16Spreading falsehoods against my country may help the Hindutva zealots win elections, but

02:21will not surely help them win respect in the global community.

02:26The Prime Minister of today's illiberal and intolerant India has been implicated by his

02:30country's own Supreme Court for targeting killings of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002, and

02:36was until recently barred from entry into certain countries on account of his direct

02:40role in masterminding the Gujarat programme.

02:44This poster child of terrorist organisation RSS continues to employ state-sponsored terrorism

02:49to disseminate its own minorities and brutally suppress the Kashmiri people in pursuance

02:53of a new fascist Hindutva project.

02:56Mr. Vice President, just 12 days ago, the Oath CHR in its press briefing expressed serious

03:02concern about the numerous instances of incitement to violence, online and offline, against journalists

03:08and human rights defenders in Pakistan, in particular against women and minorities, especially

03:13worrying accusations of blasphemy, which can put accused individuals at imminent risk

03:19of violence.

03:20A week before that, the special procedures of the HRC had called on the Pakistani authorities

03:26to end the secret detention of human rights defender Idris Khattak, whose whereabouts

03:31are not known for more than nine months.

03:34Talia, the 20-year-old daughter of Idris Khattak, is still waiting for a fair trial for her

03:40father.

03:41Recently, we saw Marvis Sirmad, a women journalist and human rights defender, receiving highly

03:46derogatory and violent messages on social media.

03:49Journalists Ahmed Noorani and Gul Bukhari and their families have been receiving death

03:53threats daily and live in an atmosphere of constant fear and terror.

03:58Speaking of victims of terrorism, let me remind the Indian delegation of people.

04:03Such 45-year-old Konsar Sufi, who was shot dead by Indian forces last week before her

04:08own son in Srinagar, or of nine-year-old Sahil Ahmed Sheikh, who was among the unfortunate

04:14144 minors detained in wake of India's illegal actions of last August.

04:20The Indian representative could have spoken about the agony of hundreds of Kashmiri people,

04:25whose homes were razed down during fake search and garrison operations, and who were left

04:31without a shelter as they fight the deadly Covid virus in an even deadlier occupying

04:36power.

04:37Last week, we saw serious concerns being expressed in this room at the large number of enforced

04:42disappearances in Pakistan.

04:46Human rights defenders in Pakistan are being silenced every day through intimidation, secret

04:51detention, torture and enforced disappearances with the direct involvement of the Pakistani

04:56government.

04:57The Indian representative could have also appraised the council about steps taken to

05:01hold the instigators of the Delhi pogrom accountable but instead choose to maintain a deafening

05:06silence.

05:07Mr. Vice President, Indian delegations' drivel against my country can neither change these

05:13well-documented facts nor silence the strong voices of concern being raised by global human

05:19rights constituencies about such atrocities in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

05:24And if India wants another impartial evaluation of the situation in the occupied territory,

05:30it should immediately give unhindered access to global media, civil society, OHCHR and

05:35SP, MSN to JNK.

05:40Abductions continue often of not only journalists and human rights defenders, but also of underaged

05:47Hindu and Christian girls.

05:49Law enforcement agencies in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh have been given a free

05:53hand and are authorised to arbitrarily detain any person, including those below the age

05:58of 18 years.

05:59Cries of Baloch sister Hasiba Kambrani for her brothers Hassan and Ismullah Kambrani,

06:05who have been forcibly taken away by the Pakistani military, go unheard.

06:10This Mr. Vice President, is the plight of daughters, sisters and mothers in Pakistan.

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