Pakistan slams UNSC for ignoring Hindutva terrorism

Pakistan has called on the UN Security Council to shift some of its focus on combating Al-Qaeda and ISIS/Da’esh to Hindutva groups in India terrorizing Muslims as well as on State terrorism brutalizing people under occupation, like those in Palestine and Kashmir. “The Security Council’s work on Counter-Terrorism needs urgent reform,” Ambassador Munir Akram, permanent representative of Pakistan to the UN, told the UN General Assembly, which discussed the annual report of the 15-member Council on its actions to maintain international peace and security.

The Council, he said, has focused on combating Al-Qaeda and ISIS and their associates, while terrorism proliferated across the world. “The (current) listing and sanctions processes are cumbersome and politicized,” the Pakistani envoy said.

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