The United General Assembly (UNGA) witnessed neighbours India and Pakistan engage in a debate on Kashmir once again. Pakistan caretaker Prime Minister Anwarul Haq Kakar on Friday predictably raised the Kashmir claiming Kashmir as the key to India-Pakistan friendship. India swiftly responded to this comment and said that matters pertaining to Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are “purely internal”, Pakistan has no say on its domestic matters as a foreign country.India slams Pakistan for raking up Kashmir at UNGA calls for vacating occupied areas, action against terrorismRead @ANI Story | https://t.co/yPQTtHoEzC#India #UNGA #Pakistan #UnitedNations pic.twitter.com/4xsDGK0oKX— ANI Digital (@ani_digital) September 23, 2023 India calls Pakistan habitual offenderIndias First Secretary for second committee of General Assembly, Petal Gehlot called Pakistan a habitual offender and said “Pakistan has become a habitual offender when it comes to misusing this August forum to peddle baseless and malicious propaganda against India.”“Member states of the United Nations and other multilateral organisations are well aware that Pakistan does so to deflect the international communitys attention away from its own abysmal record on human rights. We reiterate that the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir are an integral part of India. Matters pertaining to the UTs of J&K and Ladakh are purely internal to India. Pakistan has no locus standi to comment on our domestic matters”, she added.Pakistan diverts attention from international community…She further added that Pakistan does this to divert the attention of the International Community away from its own abysmal record on human rights and told Pakistan to shut down terror infrastructure in the country.“Pakistan would do well to put its own house in order before venturing to point a finger at the worlds largest democracy,” Ms. Gahlot said.She also spoke about violence against minorities in Pakistan, citing examples from the incidents in Faisalabad district where several churches and Christian houses were burnt down. Gehlot also said that an estimated 1,000 women from minority communities are kidnapped, forcefully converted and married off in Pakistan every year.3 points to peace in South Asia: India to Pakistan Pakistan was also slammed for housing terrorists and called on its government to take action against the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attack by India in the UNGA.“Pakistan has been the home and patron to the largest number of internationally prescribed terrorist entities and individuals in the world,” she said. “Instead of engaging in technical sophistry, we call upon Pakistan to take credible and verifiable action against the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks whose victims await justice even after 15 years.”India also listed three steps that Pakistan must take to ensure peace in South Asia: “First, stop cross-border terrorism and shut down its infrastructure of terrorism immediately. Second, vacate Indian territories under its illegal and forcible occupation. And third, stop the grave and persistent human rights violations against the minorities in Pakistan,” said Ms Gahlot.
