#United Nations/Geneva

India slammed Pakistan at the UN Human Rights Council, saying a country with one of the world’s worst human rights records should confront rampant State-sponsored persecution and systemic discrimination of religious minorities in its own society.

“We find it deeply ironic that a country with one of the world’s worst human rights records seeks to lecture others. Their attempts to misuse this august forum with fabricated allegations against India only expose their hypocrisy. Instead of making baseless propaganda, they should confront the rampant State-sponsored persecution and systemic discrimination (of religious & ethnic minorities) that plague their own society,”Counsellor in the Permanent Mission of India, Geneva, K S Mohammed Hussain said.PTI

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