New Delhi : India blasted Pakistan at the United Nations over its dismal record on women’s rights and called out the country over its campaign of genocidal mass rape of 400,000 women during Operation Searchlight in 1971. India’s permanent representative Parvathaneni Harish slammed Pakistan of continuing its “delusional tirades”, particularly regarding Jammu and Kashmir.
A country that bombs its own people, conducts systematic genocide can only attempt to distract the world with misdirection and hyperbole, Harish said. The bombing its own people” remark was in reference to the Pakistani air force killing over 30 people, including children, in an overnight air strike in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province last month. The Indian representative at the UN raked up 1971’s Operation Searchlight, during which the Pakistani army began a brutal crackdown against Bengalis in what was then East Pakistan.
The brutalities happened during the 1971 Liberation War, which eventually led to the formation of Bangladesh as Pakistan conceded defeat and unconditionally surrendered in Dhaka. Highlighting such historical violations, Harish asserted that the international community saw through Pakistan’s propaganda. The world sees through Pakistan’s propaganda, he said.
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