Shafaqna Pakistan: Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Asim Iftikhar, has described India’s actions of August 5, 2019, as illegal and unilateral.
Addressing a UN Security Council meeting on threats posed by terrorism to international peace and security, Iftikhar stressed the need to eliminate all forms of terrorism, including what he described as state terrorism.
He said Indian actions in occupied Kashmir were an example of state terrorism and alleged that Afghanistan had become a safe haven for militant groups, claiming that the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and ISIS-Khorasan (ISIS-K) were operating from Afghan territory.
Iftikhar further said the Taliban authorities bear responsibility for preventing the use of Afghan soil for terrorist activities, adding that it is essential to deny terrorist groups access to financial resources, weapons and other means of support.
In addition, Pakistan has also called for blocking terrorists’ access to cryptocurrency and virtual assets.
Pakistan told the UN Security Council Wednesday that India’s annexation of occupied Jammu and Kashmir seven years ago using 90,000 Indian troops was a worst example of state terrorism.
“Today, 5 August marks a grim occasion – it is the seventh anniversary of the unlawful and unilateral measures imposed in Indian-illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir,” Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, said in a debate on ‘Threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts’, while underscoring the need for intensive international cooperation and practical action to fight the menace.
“On this day … the Kashmiri people, enduring over seven decades of injustice, indignity, unfulfilled promises and denial of their Security Council-guaranteed fundamental right to self-determination were subjected to a new wave of repression,” the Pakistani envoy said.
Pakistan, he said, stands for zero-tolerance for such blatant perpetration of state terrorism – in occupied Jammu and Kashmir, and in other situations of foreign occupation.
“Also, the international community must not allow counter-terrorism to be misused and abused as a pretext to suppress the internationally-recognized and legitimate struggles of peoples against foreign occupation and for their inalienable right to self-determination.”
Source: Dunya News
