UNITED NATIONS: The Pakistani mission at the UN has also drawn attention of the world form to last week’s “brazen” demolition of the centuries-old Akhonji mosque in New Delhi.
Pakistani mission called for the UN intervention to protect Islamic sites in India.
Pakistan’s Representative to the UN, Ambassador Munir Akram, in a letter to the UN Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC), said that the demolition of the Akhonji mosque “marks another highly disturbing chapter in an alarming campaign targeting Islamic sites and heritage in India”.
The Akhonji mosque, standing for over 800 years, was abruptly demolished by Delhi Development Authority (DDA) officials in the middle of the night under a significant police presence, catching the local community, mosque-goers, and Madressah students entirely off guard without any prior warning, the Pakistani envoy pointed out.
Akram said in the letter to UNAOC top official Miguel Angel Moratinos that the demolition of the mosque symbolises a concerning rise in Hindu-majoritarianism, adding that the state’s support for normalising such incidents poses imminent threats to the well-being of the Indian Muslims.
Pakistani representative Senator Mohsin Aziz also told the Annual Parliamentary Hearing at the UN that human security cannot be guaranteed when people around the world are denied their fundamental right to self-determination.
Senator Mohsin Aziz told the Annual Parliamentary Hearing that the past four months have illustrated the consequences of the suppression of the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people as over 27,000 civilians have been killed by Israel in Gaza.
