*Karachi – Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations Munir Akram has saidthat nationalist groups, including Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), theparent group of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), should beoutlawed like other terrorist outfits as they pose a clear danger toregional and international peace and security, local media reported onWednesday.*
Addressing the 15-member United Nations Security Council session, Akramsaid that “violent extremist supremacist groups” should be outlawed likeother terrorist outfits.
“Such violent racist and extremist terrorism will inevitably breedcounter-violence and validate the dystopian narrative of terroristorganisations such as ISIS/Daesh and Al-Qaeda,” he mentioned.
He said that the BJP’s Hindutva ideology is a threat to India’s Muslimpopulation.
The Pakistani envoy called for immediate steps to curb the rise of violentnationalism. He called on states to designate acts of violent nationalistgroups, including white supremacists and other racially and ethnicallymotivated groups, as terrorism, just as the world has done in case ofAl-Qaeda/ISIS and their affiliated groups
Munir Akram stated that there is need to initiate immediate domesticactions to prevent the propagation of their violent ideologies, recruitmentto and financing of these groups. He requested the UNSC secretary generalto present a plan of action to confront and defeat nationalist groups’extremist ideologies and actions
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He demanded expanding the mandate of the 1267 Sanctions Committee toinclude nationalist terrorist groups like the RSS.
Akram also called upon the body to “address certain neglectedmanifestations of terrorism, one of which is the phenomenon of ‘stateterrorism’”, citing the situation in occupied Kashmir where Indian forces”are perpetrating war crimes, crimes against humanity, and against theoccupied peoples in order to terrorise them into submission”.
As new threats to global peace and security arise, Akram said, the worldneeds to expand and adjust its counter-terror strategy to “defeat terrorismin all forms and manifestations”.
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