India furious as Pakistan raises Kashmir, Kulbhushan Jhadav issue at U.N
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ISLAMABAD - Using a two-pronged tactic in the Human Rights Council, Pakistan has raised the Kashmir issue while speaking on behalf of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and then for itself.
Islamabad also brought up Kulbhushan Jadhav, who is on death row in Pakistan accused of being an Indian intelligence agent, while replying to India’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 OIC has 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 trial before an Israeli military tribunal on charges of assaulting Israeli soldiers, he slipped in a reference to Insha Mushtaq, a 16-year-old Kashmiri girl who lost her eyesight after she was hit by pellets allegedly fired by security forces.
Later during Wednesday’s debate, Pakistan’s permanent representative in Geneva, Faruk Amil, said he was concerned about what he called the drift of India towards a “political order marked by extremism and rank communalism.”
He referred to the beef controversy in India and alleged that Muslims carrying beef were being lynched. - Agencies
