UNITED NATIONS: Islamabad called on the UN Security Council to hold accountable the “masterminds” behind supporting, financing, and sponsoring hundreds of cross-border terrorist attacks against Pakistan.
Umer Siddique, a counselor at the diplomatic mission to the UN, said it was also “essential” that Afghanistan’s territory was not used as a platform or a safe haven by militant groups.
“We trust the new authorities in Afghanistan will succeed in ensuring this in accordance with their commitments,” he said in his address to the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC).
It was the first open briefing on the work of agency after India assumed its chairmanship in January.
While in the past, the focus of such meetings had been on exchanging views on best practices, capacity building and technical cooperation in countering terrorism, diplomatic observers took note of India’s move to turn the meeting into a venue for casting negative aspersions on Pakistan, contravening the norms of behaviour by Security Council committees’ chairpersons.
Delivering India’s statement, Rajesh Parihar, a counselor at the Indian mission, said the world had witnessed the horrors of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, and the purported 2016 and 2019 attacks in Pathankot and Pulwama, respectively.
“We all know from where the perpetrators of these attacks came from,” he declared.
Rejecting the Indian insinuations, Siddique said Pakistan provided irrefutable evidence to the 15-member Security Council on external...
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