New Delhi: India’s envoy Anupama Singh lambasted Pakistan and the OIC (Organisation of Islamic Cooperation), calling their allegations on Jammu and Kashmir as “envious”.
Her criticism came at the High-Level Segment of the 55th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council. Singh lashed out at Pakistan, stating that it must be living in “La-La Land” as they can’t see development of Jammu and Kashmir.
What the Indian envoy said
The full content of the references made by Pakistan and the OIC during the session was not immediately known. However, first secretary Anupama Singh said on Wednesday the Islamabad “propaganda reeks of envy”, and added that New Delhi has no “desire to dignify it, but “will make a few points to dismantle it with facts”.
At the session in Geneva, Singh said: “Jammu and Kashmir was, is, and will always remain an integral and inalienable part of India. No amount of wishful rhetoric or audacious propaganda by Pakistan can alter the immutable fact that the accession of Jammu and Kashmir to India was completely legal and irrevocable, in accordance with the Indian Independence Act of 1947 and international law.”
She pointed out that the only outstanding issue is Pakistan’s illegal occupation of Indian territories. Singh asked Pakistan to vacate the areas “under its forcible occupation”.
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The envoy underlined: “The record voter turnout in general and assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir testifies that its people have rejected the ideology of terrorism and violence propagated by Pakistan and are moving forward on the path of development and democracy.”
‘If the Chenab Rail Bridge…’
Singh said, “If the Chenab Rail Bridge, the world’s highest railway bridge inaugurated in Jammu and Kashmir last year, is considered fake, then Pakistan must be living in ‘La-La’ land.”
She added in the same breath: Or perhaps it finds it unbelievable that the developmental budget of Jammu and Kashmir is more than double the recent bailout package it sought from the IMF.
About criticism on the democratic processes, Singh made a remark directed at Pakistan. She said it was “hard to take lectures on democracy from a country where civilian governments rarely complete their terms”.