Pakistan has urged the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to hold New Delhi accountable for its egregious human rights violations in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

Speaking at UN General Assembly’s Third Committee, acting permanent representative of Pakistan to the UN, Aamir Khan urged international community to ensure that such abuses are dealt in a non-selective and impartial manner.

Ambassador Aamir Khan also highlighted the Human Rights 75 Initiative of the OHCHR, which focuses on universality, progress and engagement under UN Human Rights, while underscoring that it should end double standards and selectivity in work of the UN.

The Pakistani envoy also said that the prevalence of Islamophobia such as the “repugnant” incidents of Qur’an burning is a matter of concern, given that it is outlawed by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.