UNITED NATIONS , May 03 : Pakistan Thursday told the UN General Assembly that India was targeting Indian Muslims, Christians, as also Muslims of occupied Kashmir, and called for an end to their harsh suppression. \u201cSince the BJP-RSS government assumed office in 2014, hate, oppression, and violence against India\u2019s 200 million Muslims \u2013 and other minorities, Christians and the \u2018lower-caste\u2019 Dalits \u2013 have become rampant and systematic, fueled by the ideology of Hindutva,\u201d Ambassador Munir Akram said in a debate on \u2018Culture of Peace\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnless Hindutva fascism is opposed, unless the sense of impunity of the BJP-RSS is ended, unless the Indian Muslims are protected against genocide, and unless the Kashmir dispute is peacefully resolved, wider violence and conflict in South Asia is a real and present danger,\u201d the Pakistani envoy said
\nin his speech that comprehensively dealt with how New Delhi\u2019s policies were posing a threat to peace in the region. Despite efforts to promote a \u201cCulture of Peace\u201d, he said the world is witnessing the rise of hate, violence and war, with over 300 conflicts are raging across the globe. \u201cThe right of peoples to self-determination is being brutally suppressed, especially in Palestine and in Jammu and Kashmir,\u201d Ambassador Akram said, adding, \u201cWe see the spread of discrimination, bigotry, xenophobia and Islamophobia even in mature democracies.\u201d Highlighting Pakistan\u2019s efforts to combat Islamophobia, he said, \u201cThe world cannot but be deeply concerned at the officially sanctioned manifestations of Islamophobia in India.\u201d India\u2019s Citizenship Law and National Registry list is designed to exclude Muslims from citizenship and to expel them, the Pakistani envoy said. Cow vigilantes, lynch, kill and assault Muslims with official approbation, he said, noting that Muslim men are persecuted for so-called \u201clove jihad\u201d to prevent them marrying Hindu women. Extremist Hindu groups have expressly called for genocide against Muslims, he told the 193-member Assembly. The organization \u2013 Genocide Watch \u2013 has
\nhas warned of the possibility of genocide of Muslims in India as well as in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir. \u201d And just last week,\u201d the ambassador said, \u201cPrime Minster Modi himself fueled the hate and violence against Muslims calling them \u2018infiltrators\u2019 who would be taking the wealth of Hindu men in India.\u201d India\u2019s rich Islamic heritage is being eliminated, with history text books rewritten to eliminate references to India\u2019s Muslims rulers and its glorious period of Islamic rule. Muslim place names are being replaced by Hindu names, it was pointed out. The Indian Supreme Court not only failed to punish those who destroyed the historic Babri Mosque but allowed them also to build the \u201cRam Temple\u201d on the site of the destroyed Mosque. Hindu groups are seeking to transform other mosques, such as the Varanasi mosque into Hindu Temples, with thousands of other mosques and Muslims religious sites across India under threat. In this regard, Ambassador Akram urged the UN Secretary-General to implement the Plan of Action for the protection of religious sites. \u201cHindutva extremism has turbo-charged the repression of the people of occupied Jammu and Kashmir,\u201d he said. After the unilateral and illegal measures taken on 5 August 2019 to annex Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh, the Pakistani envoy said, India has deployed 900,000 troops to impose what it ominously calls the \u2018Final Solution\u2019 for Kashmir. All the pro-freedom Hurriyet leaders remain incarcerated, he said. Over 13,000 young Kashmir men have been abducted and many of them tortured. Hundreds of innocent Kashmiris are extra-judicially killed each year with impunity in fake \u201cencounters\u201d and \u201ccordon and search\u201d operations. Pakistan, he said, has circulated to the United Nations a detailed dossier, with concrete evidence, of over 2400 crimes committed by named Indian officials in occupied Jammu and Kashmir. \u201che situation in occupied Jammu and Kashmir will never be \u2018normal\u2019 until the people of Jammu and Kashmir are allowed to exercise their right to self-determination through a plebiscite held under UN auspices, as called for by several Security Council resolutions and accepted by India, Ambassador Akram said. \u201cThe Jammu and Kashmir dispute is an open wound which can once again trigger a disastrous conflict between Pakistan and India. It needs to be resolved urgently in accordance with the resolutions of the Security Council and the wishes of the Kashmiri people.\u201d Ambassador Akram told the Assembly about the extremist BJP-RSS government\u2019s resort to belligerence and aggression against Pakistan, pointing out that the Indian Defence Minister had threatened to \u201ctake over\u201d Azad Kashmir. Their Army Chief has also threatened to cross the Line of Control. \u201cIndia\u2019s armed forces have adopted dangerous doctrines: \u2018Cold Start\u2019, to launch a surprise attack against Pakistan, another contemplating and I quote \u2018a limited war under the nuclear overhang\u2019.\u201d
\n, India, he said, is financing and sponsoring terrorist groups, especially the TTP and the BLA, to conduct attacks in Pakistan across the country\u2019s Western borders in an attempt to disrupt the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Pakistan recently informed the Security Council, as well as the Secretary-General and the President of the General Assembly of India\u2019s campaign of targeted assassinations in Pakistan, Ambassador Akram said, emphasizing that this extra-territorial state terrorism is not limited to Pakistan. \u201cIt has been extended to targeted killings of political opponents in Canada and attempted in the United States, and probably other countries. The Washington Post reported that Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week told his cheering supporters: \u201cToday, even India\u2019s enemies know: This is Modi, this is the new India. This New India comes into your home and kills you\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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