Pakistan is a 'failed state', protected Osama: India at UN

United Nations: Responding to Islamabad's bid to raise the Kashmir issue for a second day at the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva, India denounced Pakistan as a "failed state" where terrorists thrive and Osama Bin Laden received protection, and demanded that it bring the perpetrators of the Mumbai, Pathankot and Uri attacks to justice. "Even as terrorists thrive in Pakistan and roam its streets with impunity, we have heard it lecture about the protection of human rights in India," Mini Devi Kumam, a Second Secretary at the India's UN Mission in Geneva, said.

"It is extraordinary that the state which protected Osama Bin Laden and sheltered Mullah Omar should have the gumption to play the victim," she said. In "gross violation" of a Council, the UN-designated terrorists like Hafiz Mohammed Saeed are "freely operating with State support, and the UN designated entities are being politically mainstreamed in Pakistan," she added.

"We await credible action by the Government of Pakistan to bring all those involved in the 2008 Mumbai attack and the 2016 Pathankot and Uri attacks to justice," she said. "The world does not need lessons on democracy and human rights from a country whose own situation is charitably described as a failed state," she added.

Kumam was responding to Tahir Andrabi, Pakistan's UN Deputy Permanent Representative in Geneva, who earlier invoked Jawaharlal Nehru to make his case for a plebiscite in Kashmir. Andrabi said that at the heart of the Kashmir problem is the right to self-determination which was conceded by "the first Prime Minister of India, one of the founding fathers of India" and by the UN Security Council through a plebiscite. Kumum said, "Pakistan keeps referring to UN Security Council Resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir. However, it very conveniently forgets its own obligation under these resolutions to first vacate the illegal occupation of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. It has also blatantly disregarded its other commitments, be it under the 1972 Simla Agreement or Lahore Declaration of February 1999."