UNITED NATIONS: A Pakistani diplomat has called on the UN Security Council to hold accountable the “masterminds” behind supporting, financing, and sponsoring hundreds of cross-border terrorist attacks against Pakistan.
At the same time, Umer Siddique, a counselor at the Pakistan Mission to the UN, said it was also “essential” that Afghanistan’s territory was not used as a platform or a safe-haven by any terrorist group.
“We trust the new authorities in Afghanistan will succeed in ensuring this in accordance with their commitments,” he said in his remarks to the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) on Monday.
It was the first open briefing on the work of UN CTC after India assumed its chairmanship in January 2022.
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 here 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 that the world had witnessed the horrors of the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, the 2016 Pathankot attack, and the 2019 Pulwama terrorist attack, adding, “We all know from where the perpetrators of these attacks came from.”
Rejecting the Indian insinuations, Siddique, the Pakistani representative, stated that...
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