Use of cluster bombs on civilians exposes real face of Indian Army: Maleeha Lodhi

ISLAMABAD (92 News) – Pakistan's Ambassador to the United Nations Maleeha Lodhi has said that unchecked use of cluster bombs on the civilian population along the Line of Control (LoC) has exposed the real face of the Indian Occupied Army before the international community. https://twitter.com/LodhiMaleeha/status/1157668377076346887?s=20 In a tweet, she said: “India has always violated the prescribed international laws, especially the Geneva Convention.” She said that why India stops the UN Special Mission to review the reality in Occupied Kashmir if he has nothing to conceal. “India cannot hide reality by any means.” https://twitter.com/LodhiMaleeha/status/1157675233588973569?s=20 In another tweet, Maleeha Lodhi said that Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres also expresses concern at reports that India is preparing ground to change status of Occupied Jammu and Kashmir. https://twitter.com/LodhiMaleeha/status/1157635176815632384?s=20 She said that Pakistan has consistently opposed any move that could alter situation in IoK as it would violate Security Council resolutions. https://twitter.com/LodhiMaleeha/status/1157631167581118464?s=20 “Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s letter to the UN secretary general on the grave situation in Occupied Kashmir has also been circulated among members of the UN Security Council. This details the serious human rights violations and cross LoC violations,” she tweeted.

Denial of self-determination to Kashmiris violation of UN Charter: Maleeha

Earlier, Pakistan's Ambassador to the United Nations Maleeha Lodhi said her country told the UN General Assembly that the continued denial of the right to self-determination to the people of Indian-held Jammu Kashmir (IHK) was not only a travesty of justice, but also an “egregious violation” of the UN Charter. Addressing a special meeting of the 193-member Assembly to commemorate the “International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace”,  she urged the international community to stand united against any attempts to undermine the sanctity of the UN Charter or to reinterpret its fundamental provisions to suit narrow aims. “If the primacy of ‘we the peoples’ is to be more than just words,” Ambassador Lodhi underscored, the fundamental rights enshrined in the Charter must be ensured to all peoples. She also pointed to a growing tendency in the world by some to erode well-established norms of international law, including respect for sovereignty and the territorial integrity of states, and the prohibition of the use of force.