India pulls no punches against Turkey; tells Erdogan to 'understand democratic practices'

India on Tuesday lambasted Pakistan, Turkey and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) at 46th session of Human Rights Council for ir remarks on India's internal affairs. Responding to reference me by Turkey on Jammu and Kashmir, India in its right to reply vised Turkey to refrain from commenting on internal affairs of India and develop a better understanding of democratic practices.

democratic practices remark at Turkey appears to be well directed seeing as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is widely accused of cementing his power as a result of fixed elections and a clampdown on opposition, having even faced a failed coup just a few years ago.

' OIC has locus standi to comment'

First secretary, Permanent Mission of India in Geneva Pawan Bhe who delivered India's right to reply said: "We reject reference me by OIC to Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir which is an integral part of India. OIC has locus standi to comment on internal affairs of India. OIC has allowed itself to be misused by Pakistan to subverse its own nda. It's for members of OIC to decide if it is in ir interests to allow Pakistan to do so."

Slamming Pakistan, Indian diplomat said, "It has become habitual for Pakistan to malign my country with false and fabricated narratives for its self-serving malicious purposes."

"Neir India r ors deserve this unsolicited lecture on human rights from a country that has consistently persecuted its ethnic and religious mirities, is an epicentre of terrorism, has distinction of providing pensions to individuals on UN Sanctions list and has a Prime Minister who proudly mits training tens of thousands of terrorists to fight in Jammu and Kashmir," he said.

India humiliates Pakistan at Human Rights platform

India also raised issues of state-supported persecution in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.  Highlighting nefarious designs of Pakistan in Pakistan-occupied  Kashmir, Indian representative said, " mass influx of outsiders has whittled down number of Kashmiris to an insignificant number in Pakistan occupied parts of Indian Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ldakh. 

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"In its zeal to reassert its ocratic ideology, it has ensured that ethnic and religious mirities have future through systematic persecution, blasphemy laws, forced conversions, targeted killings, sectarian violence and faith-based discrimination," diplomat said.

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"Thousands of Sikh, Hindus and Christian mirity women and girls have been subjected to abductions, forced marris and conversions in Pakistan." On plight of people in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh, Indian diplomat said, "t a single day has gone by when a family in Balochistan doesn't find its members picked up or kidnapped by security forces of Pakistan.

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(With ncy inputs)