UNITED NATIONS: In his second statement voicing concern over tensions in South Asia, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has urged Pakistan and India to resolve their problems through “meaningful mutual engagement”, Geo News reported.
The UN chief reiterated his condemnation of last week’s attack in Held Kashmir’s Pulwama district and his call for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.
“It is essential that there be accountability under international law and the perpetrators of terrorist acts be brought swiftly to justice,” the UN chief’s spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said in a statement read out at the regular briefing Wednesday.
On Tuesday, Guterres offered his offices if accepted by both sides to help in de-escalating the tense situation. On Wednesday, the spokesperson said the UN chief again urgently appeals to India and Pakistan to exercise “maximum restraint to ensure the situation does not further deteriorate”. “It is the belief of the Secretary General that all difficult challenges can be resolved peacefully and satisfactorily through meaningful mutual engagement,” he added. In the past, Pakistan always welcomed the Secretary General’s good offices, while India rejected his offers.
Meanwhile, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Rupert Colville, has expressed concern over the brutal targeting of Kashmiris and Muslims by Hindu extremists on the pretext of the Pulwama blast in IHK, Geo News reported.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Rupert Colville, in a statement issued in Geneva said the high commissioner was concerned “over reports from India that some elements are using the Pulwama attack as justification for threats and potential acts of violence targeting Kashmiri and Muslim communities living in different parts of India”. The high commissioner hoped that India would take steps to protect people from all forms of harm that may be directed at them on account of their ethnicity or identity. Regarding escalation in tension between Pakistan and India after the incident, the statement said: “We hope escalating tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbours will not add further to the insecurity in the region”.
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