Pakistan has urged the UN Security Council to designate “violent nationalist groups” including India’s hardline Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) as proscribed outfits like other militant groups.
Pakistan’s Ambassador to the UN, Munir Akram, laid out an “action plan” before the 15-member Security Council to tackle nationalist groups including the RSS, which is believed to be the parent group of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan reported Wednesday.
According to Akram, these groups, including the RSS “pose a clear danger to regional and international peace and security.”
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“Such violent racist and extremist terrorism will inevitably breed counter-violence and validate the dystopian narrative of terrorist organizations such as ISIS/Daesh and Al-Qaeda,” Akram was quoted as saying.
Calling for “immediate” steps to curb the rise of violent nationalism, he proposed to the UN and its member states to initiate domestic actions to prevent the propagation of the violent ideologies, recruitment to and financing of these groups.
He urged the UN Secretary-General to present a “plan of action” to confront and defeat the extremist ideologies and actions of these groups.
Pakistan has urged the UN Security Council to designate "violent nationalist groups" including India's hardline Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh #RSS as proscribed outfits like other militant groups. @ForeignOfficePk @PakistanPR_UN @PakistanUN_NY https://t.co/0BC9jsRXQ8
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Citing the scrapping of the longstanding semi-autonomous status of disputed Jammu and Kashmir in August 2019 and the introduction of controversial citizenship laws by the Indian government, the Pakistani envoy said the world needs to “expand and adjust its counter-terror strategy to “defeat terrorism in all forms and manifestations.”
India’s ‘state sponsorship of terrorism’
Sajjad Qazi also briefed about the recent terror attacks in Pakistan accusing New Delhi of financing and orchestrating the attacks to destabilize Pakistan.
In mid-November, Islamabad presented a trove of dossier extensively documenting India’s active planning, promoting, aiding, abetting, financing and execution of terrorist activities against Pakistan.
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The dossier shared with media at a press conference in Islamabad by Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and the country’s Armed Forces spokesman Major General Babar Iftikhar include banking transactions worth over $130 million, documents, and audio clips as well as details of contacts between members of India’s intelligence agency and militants and terrorist groups inside Pakistan, including Jamaat ul Ahrar, Baloch Liberation Army and the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan. New Delhi rejected the allegations.
Ambassador Sajjad Qazi noted that the dossier reveals that “Indian nexus with various terrorist outfits” is gradually deepening and New Delhi has “internalized terrorism” as an “instrument of state policy.”
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Islamabad expects the international community will play its role for peace and stability in the region by “compelling India to immediately halt its state sponsorship of terrorism inside Pakistan,” he added.
Anadolu with additional input by GVS News Desk