Says powerful states failed to invoke R2P, granting preference to \u2018strategic allies\u2019 over rights violations
\nUNITED NATIONS
\nPakistan has urged the advocates of the concept of \u201cresponsibility to protect\u201d, or R2P, to apply it to safeguard the oppressed people of Palestine and Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
\n\u201cApart from its abuse, the concept of R2P has also led to the criticism that some powerful states have failed to invoke R2P by showing hesitancy, either in condemning the massive human rights violations committed by so-called \u2018strategic allies\u2019 or by holding them accountable in the Security Council,\u201d Ambassador Aamir Khan, deputy permanent representative of Pakistan to the UN, told the UN General Assembly.
\nThe concept of R2P rests on three pillars \u2013 responsibility of each state to protect its populations; responsibility of the international community to assist states in protecting their populations and responsibility of the international community to protect when a state is manifestly failing to protect its populations.
\nSpeaking in a debate on the responsibility to protect and the prevention of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, the Pakistani envoy said that for more than seven decades, India had denied the right of self-determination to the Kashmiri people, in violation of multiple resolutions of the Security Council, prescribing a free and fair plebiscite.
\nIndia, he said, had deployed 900,000 troops, resorted to extra-judicial killings; forced abductions; collective punishments; and the incarceration of the entire political leadership of the All Parties Hurriyet Conference (APHC).
\nTo this end, he noted that Pakistan had circulated a dossier with the evidence of 3,432 war crimes, committed by India\u2019s officials in Jammu and Kashmir, adding that Muslims\u2019 persecution had become a \u2018routine norm\u2019 for India.
\nOn Saturday, during a visit of Indian Home Minister Amit Shah to IIOJK, Ambassador Khan said that Indian Army personnel stormed into a mosque in Pulwama district of south Kashmir while Muslims were offering prayers and forced them to chant \u2018Jai Shri Ram\u2019 against their will.
\n \u201cThe International community, specially the advocates of R2P concept, must carefully analyse the devastating human rights situation that is transpiring in India as well as the occupied territory of Jammu and Kashmir,\u201d the Pakistani envoy said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Says powerful states failed to invoke R2P, granting preference to \u2018strategic allies\u2019 over rights violations UNITED NATIONS Pakistan has urged the advocates of the concept of \u201cresponsibility to protect\u201d, or R2P, to apply it to safeguard the oppressed people of Palestine and Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). \u201cApart from its abuse, the concept […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-340407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n