 "Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), speaks during the launch of the Awami Muashi Muahida (public economic manifesto) in Larkana, Pakistan, January 16, 2024. (Photo: Reuters)")
Pakistan’s former foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto received a tough rebuttal at the UN headquarters in New York after he claimed that Muslims are being “demonised” in India following the Pahalgam attack of April 22.
Bhutto is in the US with a Pakistani delegation to hold meetings with UN Secretary-General António Guterres, General Assembly President Philemon Yang, and Security Council President Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett.
Countering his assertion about the Muslim population in India, a foreign journalist said that he had personally followed military briefings of India during Operation Sindoor, which was being headed by a Muslim army official, Sophiya Qureshi.
The briefing for Operation Sindoor was conducted by two senior female officers, Colonel Sofiya Qureshi from the Indian Army’s Corps of Signals and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh, a helicopter pilot with the Indian Air Force, alongside Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri.
‘Setbacks in UN…’
Bhutto admitted that Pakistan’s efforts to raise the Kashmir issue at the UN have faced significant setbacks.
“As far as the hurdles we face within the UN and in general, as far as the Kashmir cause is concerned, that still exists,” he said during a press conference.
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More ShortsThe Pakistani leader also sought dialogue with India, saying, “Pakistan would still like to cooperate with India to combat terrorism we can’t leave the fate of 1.5 or 1.7 billion people in the hands of non-state actors and terrorists for them to decide at a whim that two nuclear armed powers will go to war and this is the new normal of the new abnormal that the Indian government is trying to impose on the region.”