India added that "religious intolerance has been ensured in an atmosphere of law enforcement officials' willful indifference, where victimization of minorities goes unabated."
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color:#111111;letter-spacing:-.75pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Digital Desk: India stated on Wednesday
that it is past time for the UN to hold Pakistan accountable for the institutionalized
discrimination and systematic persecution of its religious and racial
minorities.
color:black">In exercising its right to respond, India emphasized that the
majority of terrorists who are outlawed internationally had been operating
freely on Pakistani territory.
"Pakistan's audacity,
as a self-styled torchbearer for human rights of the people of India, is
appalling," Pawankumar Badhe, First Secretary, Permanent Mission of India,
said in a statement. "Considering its own top leadership has in the past
openly acknowledged creating terrorist groups and training them to fight in
Afghanistan and the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir."
color:black">He continued, "We implore the council and its institutions to
call upon Pakistan to take credible actions to cease its state-sponsored
terrorism and demolish terrorist infrastructure in the regions under its control.
color:black">India added that "religious intolerance has been ensured in
an atmosphere of law enforcement officials' willful indifference, where
victimization of minorities goes unabated."
It stated that "it is
about time that the council and its institutions held Pakistan to account for
the institutionalized discrimination and systematic persecution of its
religious and racial minority."
"Pakistan
has utilized extrajudicial abductions, forced disappearances, arbitrary
detention, and torture as weapons of official policy to persecute dissent and
target human rights advocates, political activists, students, and journalists.
Therefore, Pakistan would be wise to take care of its own affairs before
criticizing others "India responded by denying the references to it in the
Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) nations' statement.
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