India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish, said that Pakistan conducts “systematic genocide”.
India on Tuesday slammed Pakistan at the UN Security Council (UNSC), saying it is a country that “bombs its own people”. India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish, while speaking during the Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security, said that Pakistan conducts “systematic genocide” and can only attempt to “distract the world with misdirection and hyperbole”.
He further called out Pakistan for its “delusional tirade” against India, especially Jammu and Kashmir.
The Indian envoy’s remarks came shortly after a Pakistani official at the UNSC alleged that the Kashmiri women have “endured sexual violence for decades”.
“Every year, we are unfortunately fated to listen to the delusional tirade of Pakistan against my country, especially on Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian territory they covet. Our pioneering record on Women, Peace and Security agenda is unblemished and unscathed,” Harish said, adding, “A country that bombs its own people, conducts systematic genocide, can only attempt to distract the world with misdirection and hyperbole.”
The Indian envoy further stated that Pakistan that conducted Operation Searchlight in 1971 and sanctioned a systematic campaign of genocidal mass rape of 400,000 women citizens by its own army. “The world sees through Pakistan’s propaganda,” he added.
India’s response came following the remarks of Counsellor Saima Saleem, part of the Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the United Nations, who said that Kashmiri women have been “for decades of occupation have endured sexual violence deployed as a weapon of war.”
