Pakistan calls on UN to include Hindutva fascism in its counter-terrorism push

[Kailash Kumar]

Pakistan calls on UN to include Hindutva fascism in its counter-terrorism push

July 7, 2020

Pakistan has called for the inclusion of Hindutva fascism in the UN’s counter-terrorism endeavours, arguing that like other forms of violent supremacist movements its dystopian narrative also fuels terrorism.

“Hindutva fascism, like other forms of violent supremacist movements, constitutes another form of terrorism, which must be encompassed in the UN’s counter-terrorism endeavors,” Ambassador Munir Akram said, while noting that some of terrorism’s manifestations, including the rise of Islamophobia, Hindutva fascism, and state terrorism in case of foreign occupation, had not been adequately addressed by the international community.

The Pakistani envoy was speaking in a webinar on ‘the Global Scourge of Terrorism: Assessment of High-Risk Threats and Trends, including the rise of Violent Extremism and Hate Speech in a Pandemic Environment’.

Ambassador Akram stressed the need for addressing the root causes of terrorism in order to eliminate it.

He said the South Asian region was seeing a revival of fascist terrorism, which was adding new dimensions to the already complex counter-terrorism landscape, and posing a grave threat to regional peace and security.

“The racist and fascist ideology of “Hindutva”, practices by the ruling BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) and its militant parent, the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh), which preaches the supremacy of upper-caste Hindus and the suppression of Muslims and other religions in India, poses an existential threat to the 180 million Muslims of India,” Ambassador Akram said.

India’s new anti-Muslim citizenship laws, he said, threatened to make tens of millions of Muslims stateless and homeless in India or elsewhere. “The BJP-RSS anti-Muslim campaign has been intensified during the COVID pandemic with Muslims being falsely blamed for spreading the virus,” he added.

Referring to the state sponsoring, funding, and support of terrorism by the state and non-state actors, Ambassador Akram said terror outfits were used as ‘guns for hire’ and that ‘mercenary terrorism’ was used by India to destabilize Pakistan.

He cited the terror attacks on the Chinese Consulate in Karachi and more recently on the Pakistan Stock Exchange as examples of that form of terrorism and said Pakistan was among the biggest victims of the scourge.

“Another ignored phenomena”, Ambassador Akram said, was “state terrorism”. He highlighted that there were numerous situations of foreign intervention and occupation – such as Palestine and Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir – where states were committing war crimes and the crimes against humanity to terrorize occupied people into submission.

The Pakistani envoy pointed out that state terrorism relied on portraying the freedom struggle of the oppressed as terrorism, and urged the international community to address it urgently and effectively.

Ambassador Akram also highlighted the heavy price paid by Pakistan in its fight against terrorism, suffering over 50,000 casualties – soldiers and civilians – and over $120 billion in the damage to its economy. Due to single-minded focus to eliminate terrorism, Pakistan was successful in virtually eliminating Al-Qaeda from its territories.

He concluded by urging states to form deeper cooperation in affected regions to address the extensive and proliferating manifestations of the terrorist threat and reiterated Pakistan’s offer to share its experience and capabilities with its friends in “our region”, in Africa, Asia and elsewhere to combat the various manifestations of terrorism.

https://www.app.com.pk/global/globa...ndutva-fascism-in-its-counter-terrorism-push/

 

[IceCold]

Thats whats called a diplomatic offensive. For so long we have always been at the receiving end of this. It is the first time that Pakistan has started to hit back.

 

[Protest_again]

India targets Pakistan at UN body over counter-terrorism record

India on Tuesday mounted a sharp attack on Pakistan during a virtual meeting of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism, accusing it of sheltering and supporting terrorists and pushing a false narrative on the situation in Jammu and Kashmir.

Mahaveer Singhvi, joint secretary (counter-terrorism) in the external affairs ministry who led the Indian delegation for the webinar organised by the UN body, pointed out the meeting was being held on a day when the Indian embassy in Kabul was attacked by a Pakistan-backed terror group 12 years ago and Indians and Afghans were killed.

“It is very unfortunate that a country which perpetrated terrorist attacks in Mumbai (2008), Pathankot (2016), Uri and Pulwama is now preaching to the world community,” Singhvi said in his intervention during the meeting with the theme “The global scourge of terrorism: Assessment of high risk threats and trends including the rise of violent extremism and hate speech in a pandemic environment”.

“While the world is coming together to battle the pandemic, it is unfortunate that Pakistan, a state which sponsors cross-border terrorism, continues to use every opportunity to peddle false narratives and make baseless, malicious and egregious allegations against India and interfere in our internal affairs,” he said, adding that the statement by Pakistan’s representative at the meeting was part of this pattern.

Singhvi added, “Even as Pakistan provides shelter and support to terrorists, it continues to peddle a false and motivated narrative on the situation in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It is seeking to portray its military, financial [and] logistical support to cross-border terrorism against India as a freedom struggle. It is also peddling misinformation about India’s domestic legislation and policies.”

The webinar was part of the UN body’s virtual counter-terrorism week, and Singhvi pointed out that terrorists have made innumerable attempts to infiltrate India “from their safe abodes across the border to carry out attacks and have even used unmanned aerial systems to smuggle weapons across our borders”.

At the global level, terrorists have tried to exploit financial and emotional distress caused by the pandemic, and used the increased presence of people online and on social media to disseminate misinformation through hate speech, fake news and doctored videos, he said. Another disturbing trend is the collection of funds by proscribed terror groups ostensibly for charitable activities but which would be used to finance terror, he said.

Singhvi described Pakistan’s statement claiming credit for eliminating al-Qaeda as “ludicrous” and said the group’s founder, Osama Bin Laden, was recently glorified as a “martyr” by Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan in Parliament. “This is a chilling reminder of the patronage that international terrorists receive in Pakistan,” he said. (lol)

Khan had publicly acknowledged the presence of up to 40,000 terrorists in Pakistan and the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team of the UN Security Council had reported that about 6,500 Pakistani terrorists from Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) are operating in Afghanistan, he said.

“Pakistan’s role as epicentre of terrorism has been well documented by numerous international organisations including UN and FATF. Unlike Pakistan, India does not make any distinction between terrorists and invariably condemns terror attacks anywhere in the world, including the one in Karachi, referred to by Pakistan’s representative in his statement,” Singhvi said.

 

[Genghis khan1]

such as Palestine and Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir – where states were committing war crimes and the crimes against humanity to terrorize occupied people into submission.

I would suggest Pakistan to just stick with Kashmir. Unless requires to be involved, no need to bring in Palestine.

 

[Saleet]

India targets Pakistan at UN body over counter-terrorism record

India on Tuesday mounted a sharp attack on Pakistan during a virtual meeting of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism, accusing it of sheltering and supporting terrorists and pushing a false narrative on the situation in Jammu and Kashmir.

Mahaveer Singhvi, joint secretary (counter-terrorism) in the external affairs ministry who led the Indian delegation for the webinar organised by the UN body, pointed out the meeting was being held on a day when the Indian embassy in Kabul was attacked by a Pakistan-backed terror group 12 years ago and Indians and Afghans were killed.

“It is very unfortunate that a country which perpetrated terrorist attacks in Mumbai (2008), Pathankot (2016), Uri and Pulwama is now preaching to the world community,” Singhvi said in his intervention during the meeting with the theme “The global scourge of terrorism: Assessment of high risk threats and trends including the rise of violent extremism and hate speech in a pandemic environment”.

“While the world is coming together to battle the pandemic, it is unfortunate that Pakistan, a state which sponsors cross-border terrorism, continues to use every opportunity to peddle false narratives and make baseless, malicious and egregious allegations against India and interfere in our internal affairs,” he said, adding that the statement by Pakistan’s representative at the meeting was part of this pattern.

Singhvi added, “Even as Pakistan provides shelter and support to terrorists, it continues to peddle a false and motivated narrative on the situation in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It is seeking to portray its military, financial [and] logistical support to cross-border terrorism against India as a freedom struggle. It is also peddling misinformation about India’s domestic legislation and policies.”

The webinar was part of the UN body’s virtual counter-terrorism week, and Singhvi pointed out that terrorists have made innumerable attempts to infiltrate India “from their safe abodes across the border to carry out attacks and have even used unmanned aerial systems to smuggle weapons across our borders”.

At the global level, terrorists have tried to exploit financial and emotional distress caused by the pandemic, and used the increased presence of people online and on social media to disseminate misinformation through hate speech, fake news and doctored videos, he said. Another disturbing trend is the collection of funds by proscribed terror groups ostensibly for charitable activities but which would be used to finance terror, he said.

Singhvi described Pakistan’s statement claiming credit for eliminating al-Qaeda as “ludicrous” and said the group’s founder, Osama Bin Laden, was recently glorified as a “martyr” by Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan in Parliament. “This is a chilling reminder of the patronage that international terrorists receive in Pakistan,” he said. (lol)

Khan had publicly acknowledged the presence of up to 40,000 terrorists in Pakistan and the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team of the UN Security Council had reported that about 6,500 Pakistani terrorists from Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) are operating in Afghanistan, he said.

“Pakistan’s role as epicentre of terrorism has been well documented by numerous international organisations including UN and FATF. Unlike Pakistan, India does not make any distinction between terrorists and invariably condemns terror attacks anywhere in the world, including the one in Karachi, referred to by Pakistan’s representative in his statement,” Singhvi said.

Wohi randi rona ... Anything new ?

 

[Pakistani E]

Hindutva is literally a violent ideology that uses unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims. But UN is a useless body now, and it's going the way of League of nations, where stronger countries ignore all guidelines and smaller countries are bullied and coerced.

 

[hussain0216]

Hindutva extremism is the biggest weapon Pakistan has against India

Bigger than nuclear weapons even

It is causing Internal divisions and external opportunities for Pakistan

Indians themselves have woken up to hindutva, but the discourse in India has become so poisonous it has done to India what Pakistan could only dream of doing

The coming years will be very very fruitful

 

[Vanamali]

Hindutva extremism is the biggest weapon Pakistan has against India

Bigger than nuclear weapons even

It is causing Internal divisions and external opportunities for Pakistan

Indians themselves have woken up to hindutva, but the discourse in India has become so poisonous it has done to India what Pakistan could only dream of doing

The coming years will be very very fruitful

Ameen