'End grave human rights violations': India slams Pakistan at UN over military occupation and brutality in PoK

India on Friday (local time) at the United Nations Security Council slammed Pakistan, urging it to end the “grave and ongoing human rights violations” in areas of Jammu and Kashmir “illegally occupied” by it, while reiterating that the region remains an “integral and inalienable part of India.”

Speaking at the UNSC’s open debate marking UN Day, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Parvathaneni Harish, said, “We call upon Pakistan to end the grave and ongoing human rights violations in the areas illegally occupied by it, where the population is in open revolt against Pakistan’s military occupation, repression, brutality and illegal exploitation of resources.”

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He reaffirmed, “The Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has been, is, and will always be an integral and inalienable part of India. 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 these are concepts alien to Pakistan.”

Harish accused Pakistan of suppressing the population in the occupied regions through “military occupation and brutality.” His remarks come weeks after India condemned Islamabad for engaging in “systematic genocide” and using “misdirection and hyperbole” to divert global attention from its actions.

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During the same debate, titled “The United Nations Organization: Looking into the Future,” Harish also said the UN had lost its “unique identity and foundational focus.”

“…the High-Level Week of the General Assembly last month essentially was an inward-looking exercise—how to deal with shrinking resources and bureaucratic restructuring. The time has come to go beyond pennies and posts and craft a new vision for the future of the UN,” he said.