UN- Democracy is a 'foreign' concept to Pakistan, India has asked Islamabad to end serious human rights violations in its illegally occupied territories, where the population is in open revolt against military occupation, repression, brutality and exploitation.
Responding to the remarks made by Pakistan’s envoy at the UN Security Council open debate on ‘United Nations: Looking into the Future’ on Friday, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish said, “The people of Jammu and Kashmir exercise their fundamental rights in accordance with India’s time-tested democratic traditions and constitutional framework.” “We, of course, know that this concept is alien to Pakistan,” he said.
The envoy reiterated that Jammu and Kashmir “has always been, is and will remain an integral and inseparable part of India.”
Replying strongly to Islamabad, Harish said, “We call on Pakistan to end the grave and persistent human rights violations in its illegally occupied territories, where the population is in open revolt against Pakistan’s military occupation, repression, brutality and illegal exploitation of resources.”
Harish also stressed that the United Nations must undergo real, comprehensive reforms, saying that the 80-year-old Security Council structure no longer reflects contemporary geopolitical realities.