Pakistan’s Right of Reply to the statement by the Representative of India.
Channel: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Overseas
Date: 26/09/2020

Pakistan’s Right of Reply to the statement by the Representative of India.
Pakistan’s Right of Reply to the statement by the Representative of India.

Mr. President,

The Nazis are often credited with perfecting the art of concocting lies and paddling false propaganda. Listening to the Indian representative, even the Nazis would acknowledge that the mantle has now shifted to their BJP-RSS acolytes.

The Indian diatribe was another shameful attempt to deflect attention from the real issues. India cannot escape accountability for its crimes in occupied Jammu and Kashmir and against its own Muslims and other minorities.

In his statement today, the Prime Minister of Pakistan shed a spotlight on some of these issues – the oppressive and brutal Indian occupation of Jammu and Kashmir; the egregious human rights violations of the Kashmiri people; the deliberate policy of the supremacist Hindutva ideology to suppress and marginalize its minority communities including Muslims; the expansionist Indian designs against Pakistan and its other neighbours; the avowed aim of the Delhi rulers at regional domination.

These are objective realities, not partisan facts. As India’s descent into a fascist state accelerates, the projections which my Prime Minister made last year of the BJP Government’s policies are being confirmed by its brutal actions.

We need to look no further than “Shaheen Bagh” – a Muslim majority neighbourhood of Delhi. As peaceful protestors, mainly Muslim women, took to the streets against the discriminatory anti-citizenship laws enacted by the BJP-RSS last year, Hindu zealots perpetrated a well-organized and orchestrated pogrom of Muslims in Delhi and other parts of India, in order to teach the “traitors” a lesson. Countless Muslims were killed; their homes burned; their properties looted; their places of worship desecrated, all with connivance and active complicity of the Indian state.

The charred streets of Delhi not only expose the Hindutva ideology in all its ‘intolerant glory’; they also manifest the trusted method that the Hindu extremists have resorted to – from Gujarat in 2002 to Delhi in 2020, to address the “Muslim menace”, as Golwalkar, one of the ideologues of the RSS, put it.

The Hindu extremist architects of the Gujarat massacre were also the masterminds of the Delhi pogrom. Just like the victims of Gujarat, the victims of Delhi will no doubt search in vain for justice in this new bastion of fascism. Meanwhile, the perpetrators of these crimes will continue to spill Muslim blood to further consolidate their hold on power; and to ‘eliminate all vestiges of India’s Islamic heritage; destroy its grand mosques like the Babri mosque and other Islamic monuments; changing India’s history to obliterate the thousand years of Muslim civilization and culture. State institutions have become the wiling or un-willing agents of this ominous Hindutva agenda. A former Chief Justice, whose last act before retirement was to hand over the site of the destroyed Babri mosque to the Hindu extremists to construct a Hindu temple in its place, was immediately rewarded with membership of the Indian parliament.

Mr. President,

India has no claim to Jammu & Kashmir than that of a military occupier. India is compelled to use naked force to impose its occupation on an unwilling and oppressed people.

Jammu & Kashmir is not a part of India; it never was and it never will be.

Just ask the people of Jammu & Kashmir. The state of Jammu and Kashmir is a disputed territory. As decreed by the Security Council, the final disposition of the state “will be made in accordance with the will of the people expressed through the democratic method of a free and impartial plebiscite conducted under the auspices of the United Nations”.

Pakistan and our entire region faces Hindutva terrorism. The BJP-RSS extremists continue to espouse the fiction of “Akhand Bharat” (or greater India) - a ‘unified’ subcontinent dominated by the Hindu religion, where minorities either convert to Hinduism or become second class citizens.

The Indian government is also responsible for the worst form of state terrorism against the oppressed people of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Over a 100,000 Kashmiris have lost their lives under the Indian occupation. Not one Indian soldier has been punished for these crimes.

The international community can see through the Indian hoax of presenting itself as a victim of terrorism.

We must confront and defeat terrorism in all its forms and manifestation. This goal cannot be accomplished without confronting the terrorism of hate and ambition which currently emanates from fascist ideologies including Hindutva extremists in India.

Mr. President,

Instead of ‘tilting at windmills’, India would be better served to put its own house in order and to strive for regional peace, based on equality and mutual respect, and a peaceful settlement of all disputes.

I thank you.