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India on Monday called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to hold Pakistan accountable for its state-sponsored and supported grave violation of human rights of its people, saying the UN body must pay urgent attention to Islamabad's deplorable human rights records.In a right to reply during the 46th session of the Human Rights Council, New Delhi said that it is high time that the failed state of Pakistan stops preaching and focuses on its responsibility towards the millions suffering in Pakistan.India's statement comes in response to the "incessant misuse of the council by Pakistan for its fallacious and malicious propaganda".Delivering India's response, Pawankumar Badhe, First Secretary, Permanent Mission of India in Geneva, stressed that political and human rights activists continue to be targeted and charged under draconian laws in Pakistan, including under the anti-terrorism act.He highlighted the case of Gulalai Ismail, a woman human rights defender, who campaigned against violence against women and enforced disappearances. She was charged with sedition, terrorism and defamation and had to flee from Pakistan; her father Muhammad Ismail has been arrested on 'terror' charges recently."As highlighted by various SRs and Civil Society Orgzations, this Council must pay urgent attention to Pakistan's deplorable human rights records and discriminatory treatment of its ethnic and religious minorities," he said."It is high time that Pakistan, which continues to export terrorism, is held accountable for its state-sponsored and supported grave violation of human rights of its people. It is high time that the failed state of Pakistan stops preaching and focuses on its responsibility towards the millions suffering in Pakistan," he added.India has also raised the issue of enforced disappearance, saying Balochistan has now come to be known as the 'land of the disappeared'."According to victim groups, tens of thousands of persons have disappeared from Balochistan since the year 2000. Families of persons who have disappeared continue to struggle for their voices to be heard. Hundreds of supporters of these families held a 10-day sit-in protest in Islamabad last month," the secretary said.New Delhi also said that the risk of enforced disappearances has heightened in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan after the promulgation of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Actions Ordinance.The ordinance gives security agencies vast abusive powers, including the power to detain people without trial or charge on vaguely defined grounds.Mentioning the case of 'Arzoo Raza' a 12-year-old girl who was abducted, chained in a cattle pen and forced to marry her abductor, India asserted that there has been systematic discrimination and persecution faced by Christian, Hindus and other minorities in Pakistan.India also raised the issue of killing of 11 coal miners of the minority Shia Hazara community in January in Pakistan."In September 2020, over 30,000 people gathered in Karachi, demanding that Shia Muslims be declared heretics and 'blasphemers' and, calling for their beheading. The killing of 11 coal miners of the Shia Hazara community, in January this year, is the latest in the series of acts of violence against Shia community to which they have been subjected in Pakistan," Badhe said.A climate of fear continues to impede media coverage of abuses by both the Pakistan government and the militant groups, said Badhe."A Pakist Minister declared in February 2021 that people who speak against the Pakistan Army 'should have their tongues ripped out from their throats'. Pakist journalists not only face threats but are often kidnapped and tortured for expressing views that differ from the Government's narrative," he said.At an event here in Islamabad in February, Pakistan Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad had said that people who speak against the Pakistan Army "should have their tongues ripped out from their throats".( With inputs from ANI )Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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