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Pak slams U.S. for backing India’s UNSC bid

The Pakistan cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, has expressed “serious concern and strong disappointment” to U.S. President Barack Obama’s endorsement for India’s efforts to gain a permanent seat in the U.N. Security Council. File photo
AP The Pakistan cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, has expressed “serious concern and strong disappointment” to U.S. President Barack Obama’s endorsement for India’s efforts to gain a permanent seat in the U.N. Security Council.

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Peeved over the strong backing of the U.S. for India’s quest for a permanent UNSC berth, the Pakistan government on slammed Washington over the move, claiming it would have “implications” for peace and stability in South Asia.

The government on Wednesday afternoon expressed its opposition to U.S. President Barack Obama’s endorsement for India’s efforts to gain a seat at the high table during a meeting of the cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.

The cabinet said “politics of expediency” should not be allowed to decide the future of the international order.

“The cabinet expressed its serious concern and strong disappointment on the decision of the United States to support a permanent seat for India on the U.N. Security Council,” said a statement issued by the Foreign Office following the meeting.

“This decision has grave ramifications for the direction and prospects of the system of multilateral cooperation as envisaged by the founding fathers of the U.N. Charter.

“It also has implications for peace and security and stability in Asia, particularly South Asia,” the statement said.

The cabinet claimed it was “incomprehensible that the U.S. has sought to support India, whose credentials with respect to observing the U.N. Charter principles and international law are at best chequered”.

As an instance, the cabinet cited what it described as India’s “disregard of Security Council Resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir and gross and systematic violations of the fundamental human rights of the Kashmiri people”.

The Pakistan government claimed the future of the U.N. and of “succeeding generations cannot and must not be premised on considerations of power politics, politics of expediency, bereft of morals and ideals, which must be the guiding spirit for an enlightened international order”.

The cabinet contended that Pakistan, “along with a large number of members of the international community,” wanted “principled” reforms of the Security Council.

“This process should be based on respect for the cardinal principles of the U.N. Charter, including the principle of sovereign equality of states,” the statement said.

The Pakistan government, especially the Foreign Office, has been rattled by Mr. Obama’s remarks backing India’s bid for permanent membership of the U.N.’s most important decision-making body.

Shortly after Mr. Obama announced his support during a speech to the Indian parliament on Monday, U.S. envoy Cameron Munter was called to the Foreign Office, where Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir conveyed Islamabad’s disappointment at the development.

Mr. Bashir told the U.S. envoy that the move would have “serious repercussions” for South Asia and reforms of the U.N., Pakistani sources told PTI.

Mr. Bashir also reiterated Pakistan’s publicly stated position that the U.S. appeared to have acted “out of expediency of power politics” while setting aside India’s position on the Kashmir dispute and “violations” of Security Council resolutions on this issue, the sources said.

Pakistan’s military leadership, the driving force behind the country’s foreign policy, is expected to take up the same concerns with Gen. David Patraeus, the commander of the U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan, when he visits Islamabad on November 12, the sources said.
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That will be the day... Indians can keep dreaming about sitting in the security council as permanent members...
 
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what else can pakistan do ??? khisiyani billi khamba noche

india is pursuing for unsc seat for a long time....is it easy to get the nod of world only superpower against whom 90% times india voted against them ??.. this is considered to be the greatest india's foreign policy win. sooner or later reforms will be there in UN. and india should focus to strengthen her economy and coperation with major countries to get the majority.

in the recently concluded UN's election, India got 187 and 164 votes are the testament of india growing clout.

go india go !!!
 
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That will be the day... Indians can keep dreaming about sitting in the security council as permanent members...

I think Pakistanis are more concerned about Indians not getting a UNSC seat than Indians are concerned about getting one.

Some months ago Pakistanis used to say that US will never vote for India's UNSC. After USA voted, they started saying China will never accept India as a member. After China released a positive statement, you have simply ran out of any logical argument, and are making a plane statement such as "India can dream blablabla" just to address your own insecurity.

Truth is, India will get a UNSC very much before 2020. UN knows very well how much lower it's value will be when 1/5 of Human population does not have a say. India getting a UNSC seat is inevitable and that will be before the total delivery of your JF-17s.
 
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@Muhmmad-bin-qasim: no offense but your statement has'nt got any sense,every member of UNSC now has endorsed india's aspiration to become a permanent member,as for pakistan government,their reaction was invitable so nobody cares
 
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That will be the day... Indians can keep dreaming about sitting in the security council as permanent members...

But your signature says that you love India - why are you wishing bad for India??!! :eek: :cry:

Anyhow, it doesn't matter - like Najam Sethi was saying on Pakistan TV yesterday: "whether we (Pakistan) like it or not, India is a major player now, and it is continuing to be more and more so". India will most certainly be in the UNSC, as a permanent member sooner than you can imagine.
 
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But your signature says that you love India - why are you wishing bad for India??!! :eek: :cry:

Anyhow, it doesn't matter - like Najam Sethi was saying on Pakistan TV yesterday: "whether we (Pakistan) like it or not, India is a major player now, and it is continuing to be more and more so". India will most certainly be in the UNSC, as a permanent member sooner than you can imagine.

hey bro do you have an link where i can watch that interview ..?
 
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what else can pakistan do ??? khisiyani billi khamba noche

india is pursuing for unsc seat for a long time....is it easy to get the nod of world only superpower against whom 90% times india voted against them ??.. this is considered to be the greatest india's foreign policy win. sooner or later reforms will be there in UN. and india should focus to strengthen her economy and coperation with major countries to get the majority.

in the recently concluded UN's election, India got 187 and 164 votes are the testament of india growing clout.

go india go !!!


Well............Omba showed u a bone and you start jumping and bar....
Just wait and see when he will return home and then listen his speaches.....and reaction of other UN permanent members.
 
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india can have a permanent veto for all i care - as long as kashmir is given the justice it deserves.
 
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Isn't it time Pakistan distanced itself from a hardline country to a moderate one while keeping the Islamic values intact?
 
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