GENEVA: Pakistan has warned the world community that India, emboldened by the supply of advanced weapons, was manipulating offensive doctrines of war-fighting strategies that threaten peace in South Asia and beyond.
Speaking at the Geneva-based Conference on Disarmament (CD), Ambassador Khalil Hashmi said the international community must stop India from its “reckless, militarist agenda before the Modi government’s brinkmanship pushes region and global peace into a conflict it cannot control.”
He said India was pursuing policies of hegemony, subversion and domination over its neighbors, all driven by an extremist ideology and hyper-nationalism saga.
“There are a distinctive pattern and method adopted by Modi government– staging ”false flag” operations, externalizing blame and manipulating national sentiment to win elections,” the Pakistani diplomat told the 65-member panel mandated to negotiate arms control and disarmament agreements.
The envoy said, “This recklessness put in dangers regional peace and security in South Asia”. While pushing for a permanent seat at the United Nations Security Council, Hashmi said India continues to defy with impunity the 15-member body’s resolutions by further entrenching its occupation of an internationally recognized disputed territory — Jammu and Kashmir.
“A self-professed largest democracy in the globe, it has despoiled every tenet of international humanitarian and human rights laws; by locking down more than seven million people, shutting all means of communication and refusing calls for free independent investigations into its industrial-scale abuses in occupied Jammu and Kashmir,” he added.
The envoy stressed that the BJP government’s Hindutva ideology is squeezing the Kashmiris in occupied Kashmir on the one hand and constricting the space for India’s minorities on the other hand.
Ambassador Hashmi said if India believes that its aggressive posture will influence anyone, it is mistaken. He said Pakistan offered to resolve all issues with India through dialogue but received no response.
Pakistan believes that a just and lasting solution to the Jammu and Kashmir dispute is essential for peace, security and stability in South Asia, he added.
He underscored that the international community has a responsibility in raising awareness about India’s crimes against humanity and putting pressure on India for the implementation of the UN Security Council resolutions on Kashmir.
