Rejecting Pakistan’s references to conditions of women in Kashmir, India has told the United Nations that the innocent women of Kashmir have actually suffered for long due to the persistent terrorist acts perpetrated by “proxies of Pakistan”.
Mayank Joshi, Counsellor in India’s Permanent Mission to the UN, exercised India’s Right of Reply after Shezra Mansab Ali Khan , Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s Special Envoy on Kashmir, referred to the conditions of women in Kashmir during an October 11 session on ‘Advancement of Women’ in the General Assembly’s Third Committee, which focuses on social and humanitarian issues.
Referring to condition of women in Kashmir, Khan had said “thousands of women have fallen victims to brutal oppression and occupation. Countless others have suffered rape and sexual abuse, the worst and most traumatic form of violence.”
Responding to Khan’s accusations, Mayank Joshi said that it is ‘ironical’ that a country that has ‘institutionalised the oppression’ of women in its society including through “medieval draconian laws is making claims about the rights of women in a pluralistic democracy such as India.”
He added that Pakistan will be well served to ‘seriously examine’ what ails its women and hampers their advancement.
He also asserted that India will not respond to the ‘lies and deceit’ Pakistan has been resorting to at the world body to pursue a diplomacy of ‘hate’.
“We are aware of Pakistan’s cynical attempts to pursue diplomacy of hate through lies and deceit. We do not intend to further respond to such misguided and futile efforts,” he added.
