Pakistan urges UNHRC to focus on HR violations in UN-recognized disputed territories

NEW YORK:   Pakistan has called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to pay much closer attention to the situations in UN-recognized disputed territories and those under foreign occupation and take decisive action to address rights violations there.
Speaking in the General Assembly, the acting permanent representative of Pakistan to the UN, Ambassador Aamir Khan, also called on the international community to play its role in halting a rising tide of Islamophobia and attacks on minorities.
Referring to Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir and Palestine, he said the occupying powers enact draconian laws in the occupied territories to provide their security forces the impunity for violations of human rights as a means of avoiding international scrutiny and enabling the foreign occupations.
He reaffirmed Pakistan’s abiding commitment to the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms at the national and international levels.