NEW DELHI: India on Monday said it’s high time Pakistan, which continues to export terrorism, is held accountable for its state-sponsored grave violation of human rights of its people.
The government exercised its right of reply to the gross misuse of the UN Human Rights Council by Pakistan for its “fallacious and malicious” propaganda against India.
“It is high time that the failed state of Pakistan stops (sic) preaching and focuses on its responsibility towards the millions suffering in Pakistan,” said first secretary Pawan Badhe.
“As highlighted by various SRs and Civil Society Organizations, this Council must pay urgent attention to Pakistan’s deplorable human rights records and discriminatory treatment of its ethnic and religious minorities,” he said.
Badhe said that according to victim groups, tens of thousands of persons have disappeared from Balochistan since the year 2000.
“Families of persons who have disappeared continue to struggle for their voices to be heard. Hundreds of supporters of these families held a 10-day sit in protest in Islamabad last month,” he said, adding, “Balochistan has now come to be known as the land of the disappeared”.