At UN India slams Pakistan for peddling ‘lies and falsehoods’

Srinagar, Oct 10: Slamming Pakistan for continuing to abuse the United Nations platform to peddle lies and falsehoods about Jammu and Kashmir, India on Saturday reiterated that J&K is and will always remain, an integral and inalienable part of India.
India’s response came during a discussion on ‘Decolonisation’ in the UN General Assembly’s Fourth Committee, where Member of Parliament Mahima Kumari Mewar delivered India’s Right of Reply to a statement by Pakistan’s representative.
In a post on X, India at UN, New York, said, “MP Mahima Kumari Mewar delivered India’s Right of Reply in response to a statement by the representative of Pakistan in the Fourth Committee on the Agenda Item: Decolonization.”
The post further highlighted that Mewar said, “It is regrettable that Pakistan continues to abuse the UN platform to peddle lies and falsehoods about the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.”
Mewar accused Pakistan of human rights violations in areas illegally occupied by it and called on Islamabad to address the situation.
“We call upon Pakistan to stop the grave and ongoing human rights violation in the areas illegally occupied by it, where the population is in open revolt against Pakistan’s military occupation, repression, brutality, and illegal exploitation of resources,” she said.
She said that Pakistani forces and their proxies had killed civilians protesting for their rights and basic necessities.
“In the last few months, the Pakistani armed forces and their proxies have killed dozens of innocent civilians who were agitating for their basic rights and freedoms and basic necessities,” Mewar said.
Criticising Pakistan’s political and security record, she said, “A country like Pakistan with an established record of military dictatorship, sham elections, incarceration of popular elected leaders, religious extremism, and sponsoring terrorism as an instrument of state policy, should in future refrain from preaching homilies of this at this platform.”
Reiterating India’s position on Jammu and Kashmir, she added, “Jammu and Kashmir is and will always remain an integral and inalienable part of India. I thank you, chair.” (KNO)