India strongly criticised Pakistan on the United Nations throughout a Safety Council debate on Ladies, Peace and Safety, calling out Islamabad’s poor file on ladies’s rights. Responding to Pakistan’s try to spotlight the “plight” of Kashmiri ladies, India’s Everlasting Consultant to the UN, Parvathaneni Harish, condemned what he termed a “delusional tirade,” significantly over Jammu and Kashmir. He additional accused Pakistan of hypocrisy, pointing to its personal historical past of atrocities, together with the genocidal mass rape of 400,000 ladies throughout Operation Searchlight in 1971.
“This can be a nation that carried out Operation Searchlight in 1971 and sanctioned a scientific marketing campaign of genocidal mass rape of 400,000 ladies residents by its personal military. The world sees by way of Pakistan’s propaganda,” he mentioned.
Yearly, we’re sadly fated to hearken to the delusional tirade of Pakistan in opposition to my nation, particularly on Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian territory they covet,” Harish acknowledged.
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The Indian envoy additional accused Islamabad of trying to mislead the worldwide group with exaggerated rhetoric, whereas itself violating the rights of ladies.
Harish’s remarks got here in response to Saima Saleem, Counsellor on the Everlasting Mission of Pakistan to the UN, who raised the problem of Kashmiri ladies, alleging they’ve suffered a long time of sexual violence and oppression below Indian administration.
“UN human rights mechanisms, together with the Workplace of the Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights and Particular Procedures, together with organisations comparable to Amnesty Worldwide, Human Rights Watch, and Médecins Sans Frontières, have documented these violations,” Saleem mentioned. She cited points comparable to harassment of ladies human rights defenders, reprisals in opposition to feminine members of the family of the disappeared, torture, arbitrary detentions, and widespread trauma as a result of sexual violence.
“To exclude Kashmiri ladies from the Ladies, Peace and Safety agenda erases its legitimacy and undermines its universality. The Jammu and Kashmir dispute is on this Council’s agenda and due to this fact, future studies should replicate their plight accordingly,” she added.
What Was Operation Searchlight?
Operation Searchlight was a army crackdown launched by the Pakistani Military in 1971 to suppress the Bengali nationalist motion in then-East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). The operation resulted within the deaths of an estimated 300,000 individuals and the mass rape of roughly 400,000 Bengali ladies. The ethnic violence pressured almost 10 million refugees into India, resulting in India’s intervention and the next 1971 Liberation Struggle, which resulted within the creation of Bangladesh.
UNSC Debate Marks 25 Years Of Decision 1325
The most recent UNSC debate on Ladies, Peace and Safety was held to commemorate the twenty fifth anniversary of Decision 1325, adopted in 2000. The decision addresses the disproportionate and distinctive affect of armed battle on ladies and ladies, and focuses on the prevention of human rights violations throughout occasions of battle.
India’s Earlier Response To Pakistan At UN
This isn’t the primary time India has responded strongly to Pakistan on the UN. In September, India issued a pointy rebuttal to Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s speech on the UN Common Meeting, wherein he referenced Operation Sindoor and misrepresented the result of a army standoff in Could.
Operation Sindoor was an Indian army operation carried out in response to the April 22 Pahalgam terror assault in Jammu and Kashmir, concentrating on terror infrastructure throughout Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.