India accused Pakistan of attempting to divert global attention by raising Kashmir at the UN, reminding the world of its army’s “genocidal mass rape” of women during Bangladesh’s 1971 war. India reaffirmed its leadership in promoting women’s participation in UN peacekeeping.

United Nations: India has reminded the world of Pakistan’s campaign of “genocidal mass rape” of women in Bangladesh during its Independence struggle as Islamabad tried to divert attention from its record through “misdirection and hyperbole”.

“This is a country that conducted Operation Searchlight in 1971 and sanctioned a systematic campaign of genocidal mass rape of 400,000 women citizens by its own army”, India’s Permanent Representative P Harish told the Security Council on Monday, reacting to Pakistan’s attempt t

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