Pakistan continues to “provide pensions to dreaded and listed terrorists” and host them in its territory, India said at the United Nations on Tuesday.
“The scourge of terrorism is the gravest violation of human rights and must be dealt with in strongest terms in all its forms and manifestations,” India said, adding that Pakistan should be held accountable for “aiding and abetting terrorism”. Pawankumar Badhe, First Secretary of Indian Permanent Mission in Geneva, made the comments at the 47th Session of the United Nations Human Right Council.
He was responding to an earlier statement made by Pakistan’s envoy to the UN, Khalil Hashmi, who urged the United Nations Human Rights Council to ensure “realisation of fundamental rights” of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Hashmi accused India of “demographic engineering” and use of “draconian laws” in the Union Territory.
In his reply, Badhe dismissed Pakistan’s allegations as “unfounded and…