ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Foreign Office said on Thursday that India is trying to politicize the United Nations Security Council’s Sanctions Committee by making unfounded allegations against Pakistan.
Recently, India demanded of the United Nations to take action against Pakistan over the release of alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi.
While according to Indian media, China blocked India’s move in the world body demanding action against Pakistan on grounds that New Delhi did not provide adequate information.
In his weekly media briefing in Islamabad on Thursday, the Foreign Office Spokesperson Qazi Khalilullah said that a recent complaint by India against Pakistan was discussed in one of the regular meetings of the Sanctions Committee on purely technical ground and the committee decided not to take any action on the Indian allegations.
“Pakistan therefore rejects any insinuations and politically motivated moves and attempts that question its commitment to the UN Security Council’s decisions,” the spokesperson said.
The spokesperson said that Pakistan in fact supports and respects the decisions of the UN Security Council while India on the other hand is in open violation of its various resolutions particularly relating to Jammu and Kashmir dispute.
“Pakistan is fully complying with its international obligations with regards to implementation of these sanctions,” Qazi Khalilullah said.
Qazi Khalilullah said that the monitoring team of the Sanctions Committee also visited Pakistan in January 2015 and issued a positive report on Pakistan’s numerous measures towards the implementation of the sanction regime.
On Wednesday, in its report the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) claimed that the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has been receiving funding from India.
“The government of Pakistan has taken notice of it and concerned ministries are investigating the matter,” the spokesperson said while responding to a question about the BBC report against the MQM.
In addition, the spokesperson rejected the Afghan allegations that Pakistan’s spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and its officers were behind the terror attack on its parliament in Kabul occurred on June 22.
“Pakistan will continue to support an Afghan led and Afghan owned reconciliation process,” Qazi Khalilullah said in reply to another question about Afghanistan.
