Anupama Singh also raised the recent killings of civilians and the recent crackdown across Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
India criticized Pakistan at the 62nd session of the Human Rights Council over its “terrorism policy” and asserted that Jammu and Kashmir is an “indivisible and inalienable part of India”.
Anupama Singh, Principal Secretary at India’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations, said Pakistan is a prime example of a “Frankenstein state” that is shocked when its “monster bites”.
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In her scathing attack on Pakistan, Singh said: “This is a country where the current Defense Minister brags about hosting, training and spreading terrorist policies, and yet Pakistan describes itself as a victim of terrorism, which in fact is an irony that only Pakistan can bear. It is a living example of a Frankenstein state that is shocked when its monster bites.”
She added that “the only unresolved issue” is Pakistan’s illegal occupation of Indian territory and its return, as raised by recent killings of civilians and a recent crackdown across Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
“Pakistani propaganda cannot obscure the reality of repression in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The ongoing tragedy in Rawalakot, the killing of hundreds of civilians, and brutal repression across Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir is the predictable outcome of a regime built on forced occupation that continued through the Depression,” Singh said.
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Exercising India’s right of reply during the interactive dialogue on the annual report of the UN High Commissioner, Singh rejected Pakistan’s allegations against India and criticized its continued attempts to raise the Jammu and Kashmir issue in international forums.
She said that demands for basics such as bread, electricity, rights and dignity are “meeted with bullets and brutality.”
“The illegal and illegitimate occupation can only continue through force,” she said.
Several people were recently killed in PoK following clashes between protesters and security forces after the PoK administration on June 6 banned the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) under anti-terrorism laws.
Indian envoy to the Indus Waters Treaty
Regarding the Indus Waters Treaty, Singh said that the treaty is now outdated. “No artistic arrangement can remain frozen in time while the world around it changes,” she added. “It defies logic for a state that exports terrorism as an instrument of policy to continue to demand the privileges of cooperation based on good faith and friendship.”
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The Indian envoy also said that the treaty negotiated in 1960 could not be treated as a permanent entitlement “isolated from accountability, divorced from the realities of the present day.”
“Instead of coveting Indian territory, Pakistan would serve itself and its people much better by putting its own house in order. Its seasonal theatrics in this House have long outlived any novelty,” she said.
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