NEW YORK
Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN Asim Iftikhar Ahmad while expressing grave concern over incorporation of only names of Muslims in UN Security Council (UNSC) terrorists list he said the Non-Muslim terrorists and extremists escape the accountability which is not acceptable.
“It is not understandable, and is indeed unacceptable, that every name on the Security Council’s terrorism lists is Muslim, while terrorists and violent extremists elsewhere escape scrutiny. There is no non-Muslim in the lists, he said this while delivering a statement at UN Security Council briefing on “Threats to international peace & security caused by terrorist acts”.
Cautioning the international community he said growing nexus between Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) and Majeed Brigade under Indian sponsorship is not only severe threat for the region but also for global peace and security.
He warned the world about the dangers posed to the regional and international peace by collaboration between Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) and Majeed Brigade.
While acknowledging that the Afghan interim government has been fighting ISIL-K he said the threat from various other terrorist groups such as Fitna Al Khawarij, TTP and Baloch militant groups, which have sought refuge in ungoverned spaces in Afghanistan, remains unaddressed.
Asim Iftikhar Ahmad said that it is also essential to address state terrorism and oppression as part of a holistic approach. He strongly condemned collective punishment, human rights violations, demographic changes and misuse of counter-terrorism narratives to sustain occupation in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (IIOJK) and Occupied Palestinian Territories. He stressed that occupation cannot be justified as counter-terrorism.
He said that there is also a need to differentiate between terrorism and legitimate struggles of people against foreign occupation.
He said we can defeat terrorism but only if the war is fought together and with justice.
