At the UNHRC: India calls Pakistan a “failed state”
Virendra Pandit
New Delhi: Perhaps for the first time since 1947, India has officially called Pakistan a “failed state,” which survives on international handouts, and dutifully spreads falsehoods handed down by its military-terrorist complex.
Exercising its Right of Reply at the high-level segment of the 58th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday, India lodged a strong retort to Pakistan after it raised, as it habitually does, the issue of Jammu and Kashmir at the multilateral global organization, the media reported on Thursday.
Responding to the baseless and malicious references made by Pakistan, India said it was regrettable, yet unsurprising, to see Islamabad’s so-called leaders and delegates continuing to dutifully spread falsehoods handed down by its military-terrorist complex.
Delivering New Delhi’s powerful response, Kshitij Tyagi, engineer-turned=diplomat and Counsellor at India’s Permanent Mission to the UN in Geneva, said it is unfortunate that this Council’s time continues to be wasted by a failed state, whose rhetoric reeks of hypocrisy, actions of inhumanity, and governance of incompetence.
Asserting that the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh were, are, and will always remain an integral and inalienable part of India, Tyagi said the unprecedented political, social and economic progress in Jammu and Kashmir in the past few years speaks for itself.
These successes are a testament to the people’s trust in the government’s commitment to bring normalcy to a region scarred by decades of Pakistan-sponsored cross-border terrorism, he said.
Tyagi emphasised that as a country where human rights abuses, persecution of minorities and systematic erosion of democratic values constitute state policies, and which brazenly harbours UN-sanctioned terrorists, Pakistan is in no position to lecture anyone.
Instead of its unhealthy obsession with India, Pakistan should focus on providing actual governance and justice to its own people, he said.
Pakistan is even making a mockery of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) by abusing it as its mouthpiece, which is fooling nobody. “We do not wish to dignify such propaganda, but are constrained to make a few simple points for the record.”
Underlining that India remains focused on democracy, progress, and ensuring dignity for all its people, Tyagi said these are values that Pakistan would do well to learn from.
