ISLAMABAD – Using a two-pronged tactic in the Human Rights Council,Pakistan has raised the Kashmir issue while speaking on behalf of theOrganisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and then for itself.
Islamabad also brought up Kulbhushan Jadhav, who is on death row inPakistan accused of being an Indian intelligence agent, while replying toIndia’s counter statement.
“As regards the references to India in the OIC statement of earlier today,we outrightly reject all those references,” Indian diplomat said. “The OIChas no locus standi on India’s internal affairs.”
A second secretary in Pakistan’s Geneva UN Mission, Qazi Saleem Ahmed Khan,speaking on behalf of the OIC, linked Kashmir to Palestine.
Speaking about a 17-year-old Palestinian girl, Ahed Tamimi, who is on trialbefore an Israeli military tribunal on charges of assaulting Israelisoldiers, he slipped in a reference to Insha Mushtaq, a 16-year-oldKashmiri girl who lost her eyesight after she was hit by pellets allegedlyfired by security forces.
Later during Wednesday’s debate, Pakistan’s permanent representative inGeneva, Faruk Amil, said he was concerned about what he called the drift ofIndia towards a “political order marked by extremism and rank communalism.”
He referred to the beef controversy in India and alleged that Muslimscarrying beef were being lynched. – Agencies