New York: Caretaker Prime Minister Anwar Ul Haq Kakar has said that there are wars and clash going in the world around 50 places including Ukraine.
Addressing the United Nation General Assembly 78th session, the PM said that the world can’t face another cold war as the whole of the world needed to take steps together.
He said that poverty and food scarcity on the rise around the world adding that climate change and coronavirus created economic crisis around the world.
In his maiden address to the 193-member Assembly’s high-level session, PM Kakar also focused on a range of issues, including the cross-border terrorist attacks against Pakistan by Afghanistan-based TTP; the Palestine tragedy; the threat posed by far-right groups like Hindutva-inspired extremists; Islamophobia; global economic crises stemming from Covid, conflict and climate change; Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Pakistan’s efforts to recover from its economic challenges, and the UNSC reform.
The CPEC will stabilize the Pakistan economy, he said.
In his maiden address to the 193-member Assembly’s high-level session, PM Kakar also focused on a range of issues, including the cross-border terrorist attacks against Pakistan by Afghanistan-based TTP; the Palestine tragedy; the threat posed by far-right groups like Hindutva-inspired extremists; Islamophobia; global economic crises stemming from Covid, conflict and climate change; Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Pakistan’s efforts to recover from its economic challenges, and the UNSC reform.
“Development depends on peace,” the prime minister said, adding, “Pakistan desires peaceful and productive relations with all our neighbours, including India.”
Since August 5, 2019, PM Kakar said India, with 900,000 troops in the occupied Kashmir, imposed extended lockdowns and curfews; jailed all the genuine Kashmir leaders; violently suppressed peaceful protests; resorted to extra-judicial killings of innocent Kashmiris in fake “encounters” and so-called “cordon and search operations”, and imposed collective punishments, destroying entire villages.
“Access to occupied Kashmir, demanded by the UN High Commission for Human Rights and over a dozen Special Rapporteurs, has been denied by New Delhi,” he told delegates from around the world.
The PM said that India is committing gross human violations in the Occupied Kashmir adding that India is constantly violating the United Nation resolution in the Occupied territory of Kashmir.
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He said that India is sponsoring an extremism tendencies in the region while he said that Pakistan wanted good relations with all the countries of the region including India.
He emphasized on world community that the solving the Kashmir dispute is must for peace between India and Pakistan.
The PM apprised the world that Indian forces are committing ethnic cleansing of innocents Kashmiris.
Caretaker Prime Minister Anwar Ul Haq Kakar said that the key to peace in South east Asia lies in a peaceful settlement of the Kashmir dispute.
The PM said that the peace in Afghanistan is important for regional peace as well as peace in Pakistan while he said that defunct TTP and Daish are attacking on the Pakistan soil.
The PM raised the issue of Islamophobia and religious intolerance and urged member states to find plausible solutions to curb this rising trend which harms the sentiments of all Muslims on a global scale.
Kakar raised the growing menace of right-wing religious/political organizations undermining the rights of minorities such as the ‘Hindutva’ inspired ideology breeding intolerance.
He said, Pakistan had established a Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC) to expedite investment decisions, with 28 projects identified in priority sectors – agriculture, mining, energy and IT – for implementation in collaboration with the country’s partners.
The second phase of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), he said, had been initiated covering railway, infrastructure and manufacturing projects.
Noting the far-reaching commitments made at the SDG summit to implement the 17 anti-poverty goals, he called for ensuing implementation of the “SDG Stimulus”; the re-channelling of unused Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) for development; the expansion of concessional lending by the multilateral development banks; and the resolution of the debt problems of the 59 countries in debt distress.
Pakistan, he added, also looked forward to the fulfillment of the climate change commitments made at COP28 by the developed world: to provide over $100 billion in annual climate finance; allocate at least half of such finance for adaptation in developing countries; operationalize the Fund and funding arrangements for Loss and Damage; and accelerate their carbon emission mitigation targets to “keep alive” the goal of restricting global warming to 1.5 degrees centigrade.
Pointing out that Pakistan is one of the countries worst affected by climate change, the prime minister said that the epic last summer’s floods submerged a third of the country, killed 1700 and displaced over 8 million people, destroyed vital infrastructure and caused over $30 billion in damage to its economy.
Gratified by the commitments of over $10.5 billion for Pakistan’s comprehensive plan for recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction with resilience – the 4RF Plan – at the Geneva Conference last January, he said that specific projects were being submitted to ensure it timely funding and execution. “I hope our development partners will accord priority to release of funds for our ‘resilient’ recovery plan which has been costed at $13 billion.”
The prime minister welcomed the normalization of Saudi-Iranian ties, but expressed dismay over the continuing tragedy of Palestine, with Israeli military raids, airstrikes, expansion of settlements and evictions of Palestinians.
“Durable peace can be established only through a two-state solution and the establishment of a viable and contiguous Palestinian State within the pre-June 1967 borders, with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital.”
He called for countering all terrorists without discrimination, including the rising threat posed by far-right extremist and fascist groups, such as Hindutva-inspired extremists threatening genocide against India’s Muslims and Christians.
“We also need to oppose ‘state terrorism’; address the root causes of terrorism, such as poverty, injustice and foreign occupation; and distinguish genuine freedom struggles from terrorism.”
“Make no mistake,” the Pakistani leader said, “it is a latent threat that undermines millennia of progress. We need to cherish and celebrate our diversity and different ways of life. Mutual respect, sanctity of religious symbols, scriptures and personages should be ensured.”
In this regard, he added, “While Islamophobia is an age-old phenomenon; however, after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it has assumed epidemic proportions, as manifested in the negative profiling of Muslims; and attacks on Islamic sites and symbols, such as the recent public burnings of the Holy Quran.”
On UNSC reform, PM Kakar said Pakistan did not believe in elitism within the comity of nations. Pakistan, he said, believed that adding additional permanent members — India is one of the aspirants — to the Security Council would further erode its credibility and legitimacy.
“The widest possible agreement can be best achieved on the basis of the Uniting for Consensus Group’s proposal for expansion of the Council only in the non-permanent category with provision for a limited number of longer-term seats,” he said.
“Pakistan believes that to build, preserve and promote peace and prosperity today, and in the future, it is vital to reduce great power rivalry and tensions; ensure strict adherence to the UN Charter; consistently implement Security Council resolutions; eliminate the root causes of conflicts; and respect the principles of non-use of force; self-determination; sovereignty and territorial integrity; non-interference in the internal affairs of states and peaceful co-existence.”
The PM Kakar congratulated from behalf of Pakistani nation to the United Nations over conducting a successful event of General Assembly 78th session here in New York
