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| India snubs Pak at UN, says it wants to annex J&K | | Right to self-determination rejected | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 3: India on Wednesday lambasted Pakistan at the United Nations and rejected outright the bogey of right to self-determination, saying India is a democratic country, where people exercise all rights and all freedoms.
India told the UN that the Indians across the nation have been repeatedly facing terror attacks by "proxies" of Pakistan, which continues to abuse the concept of self-determination to bolster "territorial aggrandizement" against it.
"Pakistan, whose own people have been deprived of their democratic rights for most of its history and which continues to illegally occupy a part of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir and rules it as a virtual colony, repeatedly indulges in the abuse of the concept of self-determination to bolster its agenda of territorial aggrandizement through terrorism against India," counsellor in the Permanent Mission of India to the U.N., Mayank Joshi, told the General Assembly.
Joshi very strongly rejected the Pakistan's "ritual propaganda" on the right to self-determination and the "baseless allegations" made by it, saying India is the world's largest democracy and free and fair elections are held regularly in Jammu and Kashmir.
He further said that New Delhi had repeatedly pointed out that "Pakistan would serve its people better if it could introspect about the challenges faced by its society instead of setting sights on territories of their neighbours in flagrant violation of all international norms of behaviour". He added that "By now the international community has seen through these misleading attempts by Pakistan. We, therefore, do not intend to engage any further on this issue."
The Indian full-scale attack came after Pakistan's envoy to the U.N. Maleeha Lodhi said "peace in South Asia cannot be achieved without urgent solution to the Kashmir dispute".
The Indian attack also a day after Kashmiri separatists, including Syed Ali Shah Geelani, stated that India must recognize Jammu and Kashmir as a "disputed territory", demilitarize the state and vacate what called the aggression and start talks with them without any pre-condition.
The manner in which New Delhi attacked and the language that it used was an indication that it has made up its mind to show Pakistan its face. That New Delhi now means business also became clear when New Delhi identified the undesirables in the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi and asked them to quit. Report from Delhi suggests that they are packing up and would be out of India within a few hours.
What has forced New Delhi to take action against Pakistan is the mood of the nation. |
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