Pakistan raises questions on India's election to Security Council.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday said the Indian election to non-permanent seat of the UN Security Council has raised a fundamental question as a country with the credential of being consistent violator of the Security Council's resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir must be held accountable rather than being facilitated.

"We congratulate Ireland, Norway and Mexico on their election to Security Council. The election of India, however, raises fundamental questions ... its actions in occupied Jammu and Kashmir and beyond are the fundamental negation of the purposes and principles of the UN charter. India is a consistent violator of UN Security Council resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir dispute. And rather than facilitating a country with such credentials, it must be held accountable. India must be asked to abide by the resolutions of the UN Security Council," Foreign Office Spokesperson Aisha Farooqui said in her weekly press briefing.

She said the UN Charter had entrusted the UNSC with the primary responsibility for maintenance of international peace and security. "The charter stipulates that in discharging this responsibility on behalf of the member states, the council shall act in accordance with the purposes and principles of the UN. This is the touchstone for the council's credibility and legitimacy," she said. "Contrarily, India stood in flagrant violations of several resolutions of the UNSC which prescribed the UN supervised plebiscites to enable the people of IHK to exercise their fundamental right to self-determination," she added.

She said India's gross and systemic violations of the human rights in Kashmir has been extensively documented by international human rights and humanitarian organizations as well as the Office of the Commissioner of Human Rights in their reports. "India has incarcerated eight million Kashmiris including top Kashmiri leader with 900,000 occupation troops. The people of the occupied valley have been suffering under inhuman lockdown and military siege for over 10 months following India's illegal and unilateral action of August 5, 2019," she remarked, adding that despite ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the region has been turned into a large prison and India has persistently defied the requests to allow international monitors to the region.

She said while the world is grappled with the pandemic, India is busy unabashedly advancing the RSS-BJP inspired extremist Hindutva ideology with the perpetuated human rights violations...