The UNSC punches Pakistan about the J&K terror attack: Reports
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) reportedly called out Pakistan and posed pointed questions about the terror attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, at its closed session amid growing tensions between New Delhi and Islamabad,
The members criticized Islamabad and questioned whether Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba was involved in the 26-person Pahalgam attack.
Reports indicated that the meeting failed terribly, despite Pakistan’s assertion that it mostly served and accomplished the UNSC’s goals.
Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative, called the conference and asserted that his nation had nothing to do with the terror incident.
The UNSC members called for communication and restraint to resolve the concerns, despite the fact that the session was a closed meeting with no official recordings.
“The Security Council is always helpful in such efforts” to de-escalate, UNSC President Evangelos Sekeris told reporters following the meeting on Monday. The Council is in charge of that. The conference was beneficial and productive. The meeting’s activities are confidential and lack official documentation because it was a closed session.
Everyone wants de-escalation, according to Assistant Secretary-General Mohamed Khaled Khiari, who briefed the meeting. “We hope for de-escalation,” stated Anna Evstigneeva, Russia’s Deputy Permanent Representative, who was present at the meeting.
The situation is reaching a “boiling point,” according to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who urged the two nations to “step back from the brink.”
“It is also essential — especially at this critical hour — to avoid a military confrontation that could easily spin out of control,” he stated.
“I understand the raw feelings following the awful terror attack,” he remarked, condemning “strongly” the terrorist massacre that killed 26 people in Pahalgam last month.
Notably, the terrorist incident, which claimed the lives of 25 Indians and one Nepalese national, was claimed by The Resistance Front (TRF), a branch of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba.