India Vs. Pakistan On Kashmir

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Pakistan invited a scathing response from India after it brought up Kashmir at a UN Human Rights Council session.

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00:00India's illegal occupation and its state-sanctioned oppression are enabled by several draconian

00:06laws.

00:07For decades, not a single member of Indian security forces has been convicted due to

00:10the immunity provided under these laws.

00:13Neither India nor others deserve this unsolicited lecture on human rights from a country that

00:19has consistently persecuted its ethnic and religious minorities, is an epicenter of terrorism,

00:24and is a prime minister who proudly admits training tens of thousands of terrorists to

00:29fight in Jammu and Kashmir.

00:59We thank the High Commissioner for her oral update and acknowledge her reiteration of

01:10concerns yesterday on India's continued and multiple violations of human rights of the

01:16Kashmiri people in the occupied territory.

01:19These concerns once again validate the widely documented violations by the global media.

01:25The independent civil society organizations have also been alerting the Council to this

01:29human rights crisis.

01:31Only last month, ten UN Special Procedures Mandate hodlers characterized this grim situation

01:38in a free fall.

01:40In the face of Indian stonewalling, they have called on the international community to step

01:44up.

01:45These gross, systematic and continuing violations meet all the elements of the objective criteria.

01:53It has become a habit for Pakistan to malign my country with false and fabricated narratives

01:58for its self-serving malicious purposes.

02:01Neither India nor others deserve this unsolicited lecture on human rights from a country that

02:06has consistently persecuted its ethnic and religious minorities, is an epicenter of terrorism,

02:11has a distinction of providing pensions to the individuals on the UN sanctions list,

02:15and is a prime minister who proudly admits training tens of thousands of terrorists to

02:20fight in Jammu and Kashmir.

02:22It is not surprising that other relevant multilateral institutions have been raising serious concerns

02:27on its failure to stop terror financing and lack of effective actions against all terror

02:31entities in Pakistan.

02:33Madam President, India's illegal occupation and its state-sanctioned oppression are enabled

02:39by several draconian laws.

02:41For decades, not a single member of Indian security forces has been convicted due to

02:45the immunity provided under these laws.

02:49India continues to reject any access to independent media, human rights organizations, or to the

02:54OHCHR.

02:56Such is the level of impunity and arrogance on full display by the so-called largest democracy

03:02of the world.

03:03The plight of people under its subjugation is well represented by the state of affairs

03:07in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Sindh.

03:10Not a single day has gone by when a family in Balochistan doesn't find its members picked

03:15up or kidnapped by the security forces of Pakistan.

03:19Pakistan does well when it comes to intimidation and attacks against journalists, human rights

03:23defenders, and political dissidents, in particular by its state's machinery.

03:27It is not without a reason that Pakistan has been highlighted by international organizations

03:32as a country where journalists are slain and their killers go scot-free.

03:36Using COVID as a cover, India has accelerated demographic engineering in the occupied region

03:42by giving hundreds of thousands of Kashmiri domicile certificates to non-Kashmiris.

03:48These illegal actions are aimed at transforming the Kashmiri majority into a minority and

03:53to deprive the Kashmiris their inalienable right to self-determination.

03:56Mr. Vice President, the nefarious designs of Pakistan continue in Pakistan-occupied

04:02parts of Indian Union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.

04:05The mass influx of outsiders has whittled down the number of Kashmiris to an insignificant

04:10number in Pakistan-occupied parts of Indian Union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and

04:14Ladakh.

04:15In its zeal to reassert its theocratic ideology, it has ensured that the ethnic and religious

04:20minorities have no future through systematic persecution, blasphemy laws, forced convergence,

04:26targeted killings, sectarian violence, and faith-based discrimination.

04:30Thousands of Sikhs, Hindus, and Christian minority women and girls have been subjected

04:35to abductions, forced marriages, and convergence in Pakistan.

04:38The silence will incentivise India to commit further repression against Kashmiri civilians.

04:44Lack of response will encourage the Indian regime to continue defying international law

04:49and norms, and failure to hold India accountable for its continued human rights violations

04:55will only erode the credibility of this Council, its members, and the global human rights agenda.

05:02We therefore urge the High Commissioner and her office to continue the Kashmir monitoring

05:06and reporting processes based on human rights merits and the objective criteria.

05:37As the principal human rights defender, this Council cannot remain a silent bystander.

05:41It must heed to independent voices of extreme concern and seek full implementation of recommendations

05:47made by the civil society, special procedures mandate holders, and those contained in the

05:52OHCHR's Kashmir reports.

05:54We reject the references made by the OIC to the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir,

05:58which is an integral part of India.

05:59The OIC has no local stand to comment on the internal affairs of India.

06:03The OIC has allowed itself to be misused by Pakistan to subverse its own agenda.

06:07It's for the members of the OIC to decide if it is in their interest to allow Pakistan

06:11to do so.

06:12Mr. Vice President, I again advise Turkey to refrain from commenting on the internal

06:17matters of India.

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