{"id":7298,"date":"2020-05-10T17:43:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T17:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepkmedia.com\/?p=7298"},"modified":"2020-05-10T17:43:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T17:43:42","slug":"pakistan-asks-unsc-to-act-stop-indian-atrocities-against-muslimspakistan-asks-unsc-to-act-stop-indian-atrocities-against-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepkmedia.com\/?p=7298","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan asks UNSC to act, stop Indian atrocities against Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"

UNITED NATIONS – Voicing deep concern over rising anti-Muslim attacks in parts of the world, Pakistan has called on the UN Security Council to act and prevent impending atrocities, including against the Muslims in India and in occupied Jammu and Kashmir.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are, unfortunately, witnessing a global resurgence of right-wing and fascist ideologies, hate speech, xenophobia, Islamophobia, incitement to violence and acts of brutal violence,\u201d Ambassador Munir Akram said during a Security Council \u201cArria Formula\u201d meeting on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThese trends have been exacerbated, rather than ameliorated, by the Covid-19 pandemic — the most serious global crisis since the found ing of the United Nations,\u201d the Pakistan envoy said. Estonia, a non-permanent member of the 15-nation Council, convened the meeting on Preventing Future Atrocities under the format of Arria formula, which is named after a former Venezuelan ambassador to the UN, Diego Arria. It is a very informal consultation process that affords members of the Security Council the opportunity to hear persons in a confidential, informal setting. In his remarks, Ambassador Akram noted that Islamophobia was emerging as a viral trend, \u201cunfortunately even in Europe and elsewhere, manifested by negative profiling, religious and cultural discrimination, the deliberate defamation of Islam, calls for barriers against and the expulsion of Muslim migrants and refugees, the vandalizing of Islamic sites and symbols, anti-Muslim hate speech, incitement to and perpetration of violence against Muslims.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSadly,\u201d he added,\u201d State-sponsored Islamophobia has found a fertile home in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ruled India. \u201cThe founding fathers of the RSS were avowedly inspired by Hitler and endorsed the aim to cleanse Germany of the Jews. The \u2018sevaks\u2019 of the RSS, modeled on the Nazi \u2018brown shirts\u2019, are launched on a program to eliminate India\u2019s Islamic heritage – as evident in the 1992 destruction of the historic Babri Mosque and anti-Muslims pogroms in Mumbai in 1992, Gujarat in 2002 and New Delhi in 2020, a few months ago. India\u2019s Muslims are also being vilified as the source of the COVID virus in India.\u201dThe Pakistani envoy pointed out that the ethos of the Hindu supremacists was epitomized in the declaration of a prominent BJP parliamentarian that \u201cAll people are not equal — Muslims are not equal in category — If Muslims become more than 30%, that country is dangerous\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn occupied Jammu and Kashmir,\u201d Ambassador Akram said, \u201cthe BJP-RSS leaders are engaged in imposing what they themselves have called \u2018a final solution\u2019- a plan to crush Kashmir\u2019s quest for self-determination and freedom and colonize it into Hindu majority territory.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Security Council has a mandate to prevent and punish genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. It must act to prevent impending atrocities, including against the Muslims in India and in occupied Jammu and Kashmir.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Ertugral popularity in Pakistan rising by the day<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n
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