Chennai: India hit out at Pakistan, a country in dire economic situation but provided pensions to dreaded and listed terrorists out of state funds, and asked Islamabad to stop state-sponsored cross-border terrorism.
Using its Right of Reply at the ongoing 46th Session of the Human Rights Council in response to a statement by Pakistan’s representative, India said Pakistan should also end institutionalised violation of human rights of its minority and other communities in the country.
India also slammed Pakistan for deliberately misusing the Council for its malicious propaganda against the country.
“Pakistan, a country in dire economic situation, will be well advised to stop wasting time of the Council and its mechanisms, stop state-sponsored cross-border terrorism and end institutionalised violation of human rights of its minority and other communities,” said Pawankumar Badhe, First Secretary of India’s Permanent Mission in Geneva.
“The members of this Council are well aware that Pakistan has provided pensions to dreaded and listed terrorists out of State funds and has the dubious distinction of hosting the largest number of terrorists proscribed by the United Nations,” Badhe said.
The Indian diplomat recalled that Pakistani leaders have admitted the fact that āit has become a factory for producing terroristsā.
“Pakistan has ignored that terrorism is the worst form of human rights abuse and the supporters of terrorism are the worst abusers of human rights,” the Indian diplomat said.
Badhe said the Council should ask Pakistan why the size of its minority communities such as Christians, Hindus and Sikhs has drastically shrunk since independence and why they and other communities such as Ahmadiyyas, Shias, Pashtuns, Sindhis and Baloch, have been subjected to draconian blasphemy laws, systemic persecution, blatant abuses and forced conversions.