ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office today (Thursday) has reiterated that India was financing, training, and assisting terrorists in Pakistan and urged the international community to raise its voice against Indian terrorism.
During the FO’s weekly press briefing, spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri said Pakistani law enforcing agencies (LEA) are ready to respond to Indian sabotage with its desire for peace.
Speaking of India’s atrocities on its Muslim minorities, the spokesperson said that India itself as a state is discriminating against its minorities and is in no position to speak at any forum.
Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri observed that India sitting in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will be a joke in terms of its continuous human rights violations.
“Pakistan was confident that the permanent members of the UNSC will not let India sit on non-permanent seat in the council, keeping in mind its countless human rights violations against minorities,” he added.
Talking about the Indian Illegally Occupied Kashmir (IIOK), Zahid Hafeez said that the Kashmiris’ right to plebiscite was observed on January 5. “On that day, India had promised to give Kashmiris their right to self-determination,” he said.
“In a speech to All India Radio in November 1947, India assured the Kashmiris of the right to a referendum,” Chaudhry maintained. However, he said, India has backtracked on all its promises in the last seven decades.
Pakistan has demanded the release of the Kashmiri leadership, especially Asiya Andrabi, from the UN secretary general and the Human Rights Commission.
Commenting on Karak temple, the spokesperson said that an immediate FIR was registered against those responsible. “The government is the plaintiff in this FIR which reflects its policy towards minorities,” he added.
Chaudhri also spoke about the incident at Machh coalfield was also under investigation and the details will soon be made public.
Meanwhile, the spokesperson also congratulated newly elected United States President Joe Biden after the US Congress certified that he and his running mate Kamala Harris had won the 2020 general elections, on Thursday.
