Pakistan warns of Indian false flag operations at UN

India concocts fake news to malign Pakistan and perpetrates terrorism and subversion, says Munir Akram

In another warning to the United Nations (UN), Islamabad's envoy to the world body warned of Indian false flag operations against the country to justify its aggression towards Pakistan.

India concocts fake news to malign Pakistan and perpetrates terrorism and subversion against the country, said Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Munir Akram while addressing a debate in the UN General Assembly.

“On one hand, India suppressed the Kashmiri people's right to self-determination, given to them under the UN Security Council Resolutions, through unabated atrocities by its forces; while on the other hand, it started the campaign to turn the Muslim majority state of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) into a Hindu majority territory by permitting over half a million Hindus from India to usurp the lands of Kashmiris which was a genocide under the international laws,” Akram added.

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The diplomat further said that India had silenced Kashmiris through its campaign while it threatens Pakistan through aggression by continuously violating the ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC)

“India's disastrous war was averted in February 2019 through Pakistan's restraint however the region may not be fortunate to avert it next time,” the ambassador added.

On January 26, Pakistan warned that attempts by aspirants of permanent seats on the UN Security Council — India, Brazil, Germany and Japan, known as G-4 — to railroad efforts to reform the 15-member body would kill the consensus-based process to make it more effective, representative and accountable.

“The Inter-Governmental Negotiations (IGN) remains the only credible platform for a comprehensive reform of the Security Council,” Ambassador Akram had said while reaffirming Pakistan’s strong opposition to creating new permanent members.

“Any attempts to undermine or derail the IGN process will prove counterproductive,” the Pakistani envoy said when the long-running IGN process resumed in New York.

Having failed to evoke support for their bid for permanent membership of the Council, he said that the G-4 members were trying to create the ‘fear’ that the opportunity for reform may soon be lost unless their procedural moves to short circuit the process were endorsed.