The Pakistan delegate to the Human Rights Council, termed Indian attempts at casting aspersions on Pakistan, as an act of desperation by India that was trying to distract the attention of the international community from the terrible human rights situation in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir and that the world does not believe the lies being spun out by India on this issue.
The Pakistan delegate stressed that Jammu & Kashmir was not an Indian internal affair and that this flies in the face of UN resolutions on the subject. India was resorting to the standard, discredited ploy of all occupying powers of terming resistance to oppression as terrorism. This was the case with the apartheid regime in South Africa when it repeatedly termed Nelson Mandela as a terrorist. He questioned whether eleven year old Nasir Shafi Qazi Ahmed who was killed with hundreds of pellets by Indian security forces, a terrorist, and those killed and blinded by the use of pellet guns since 8 July were terrorists.
He pointed out that Indian claims of restraint in IOK were mind boggling as one wondered what an unrestrained India would inflict on a defenseless population.
Pakistan delegate also denounced India for sponsoring terrorism in Pakistan directly through its state apparatus. The arrest and the confessional statements of a serving Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan Yadav revealed how India fueled terrorist activities in various parts of Pakistan, including Balochistan and FATA, and in countries of the region.
He stressed that the Council must not fail the Kashmiri people and must demand of India to receive the fact finding mission in IOK as suggested by the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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