Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge urged the federal government to to take acceptable diplomatic steps to “de-hyphenate India and Pakistan on the global stage.”
Kharge demanded that Pakistan be included within the FATF gray checklist.(PTI file photograph)
In a put up on X, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge stated, “The naming of Pakistan as the vice-chair of the 15-member United Nations Security Council’s Counter Terrorism Committee and chair the Taliban Sanctions Committee for 2025 is most unfortunate, ill-informed and unacceptable.”
Apart from the 2 committees, Pakistan may even co-chair the Informal Working Groups on Documentation and Other Procedural Questions.
Reacting to the UNSC resolution, Kharge stated that the Congress, as a accountable opposition get together, would urge the federal government to take acceptable diplomatic steps to “de-hyphenate India and Pakistan on the global stage.”
Shiv Sena UBT MP Priyanka Chaturvedi additionally criticised the UNSC’s resolution handy Pakistan two key posts, saying, “Repeat after me, UNSC is a joke!”
Pawan Khera, the media and publicity division head of Congress, alleged that this confirmed a “foreign policy collapse”. He cited developments earlier than the UNSC’s resolution, stating that the International Monetary Fund and World Bank had granted $1 billion and $40 billion to Pakistan put up Operation Sindoor. ”
“ADB gave $800 million to Pakistan on June 3, soon after Operation Sindoor. And on June 4, Pakistan gets elected as Chairman of the UNSC Taliban Sanctions Committee and Vice Chairman of the UNSC Counter Terrorism Committee. Of course, this is the sad story of our foreign policy collapse,” Khera stated.
He additional questioned how the worldwide neighborhood was allowing the “steady legitimization sponsorship of terrorism by Pakistan”.
Pakistan is a non-permanent member of the UNSC for the time period 2025-26. The sanction committees of the 15-member Security Council makes choices by consensus.
‘International neighborhood should see advantage in India’s case’
Kharge referred to as on the worldwide neighborhood to grasp and assist India’s stand towards “terrorism emanating from Pakistan”.
“Pakistan is the perpetrator of terror. India is a victim of terror. They cannot be equated. They should not be hyphenated,” he stated on X. While urging the worldwide neighborhood to “see merit in India’s case”, Kharge demanded that Pakistan be included within the FATF gray checklist in order that its terror financing might be monitored.
“It was first included after India’s diplomatic efforts, under PM Dr Manmohan Singh in 2008 and then again in 2012. It has been in the Grey List three times, the last being in 2018,” he stated.
Kharge too slammed the IMF and World Bank sanctions on Pakistan, including that it’ll “only increase Pakistan’s military expenditure, which its rogue Army uses to unleash terror on Indians”.
He stated that looking for accountability from Pakistan was a “necessity” not only for India, but additionally for the worldwide neighborhood. Kharge additionally issued a reminder, saying that Osama Bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), liable for the 9/11 assaults, have been each discovered and eradicated in Pakistan.
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