'Sikhs, Hindus & Christians are frequently attacked in Pakistan': India's statement at the UN Forum'

India has given a response to a statement made by Pakistan in the United Nations Human Rights Council. India has once again accused Pakistan of misusing the UN forum for its malicious propaganda against New Delhi. In its right of reply in response to a statement made by Pakistan at the UN Human Rights Council, India said: "Pakistan's representative has once again chosen to misuse the August Forum for his bad publicity against India."

India said, "Over the last decade, Pakistan's own Commission of Enforced Disappearances has received 8,463 complaints. The Baloch people have borne the brunt of this brutal policy. Students, doctors, engineers, teachers and community leaders are routinely killed by the state and disappears.”

India added, "The Christian community is treated similarly. It is often targeted through draconian blasphemy laws. State institutions officially reserve 'sanitary' jobs for Christians. Underage girls from the community are converted to Islam. Hindu and Sikh communities face issues like frequent attacks on their religious places and forced conversion of their minor girls."

In the high-level segment of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Pakistan's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar said, "India's project to colonize and permanently change the population of illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir continued with punishment and it was an insult to India. The sanctity of the edifice of universal human rights, and a brazen violation of international law."

He said that two reports on Kashmir by the Office of the High Commissioner testify to India's systematic suppression of Kashmiri rights. Along with this, he has asked the states to show unity and raise their voice to protect the rights of Kashmiris.