India urges international community to avoid double standards in counter-terrorism operations

“OIC unable to differentiate between victim and attacker.”

STC NEWS MONITORING DESK
SRINAGAR, OCTOBER 07 (STC): India has urged the international community to avoid double standards in counter-terrorism operations and to take effective measures in a united manner against all terrorist networks, their sponsors, financiers and safe havens.
It has rejected the statement of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) regarding New Delhi’s actions against the terror infrastructure in Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan. It said the officials of the Organisation are “incapable of distinguishing between the victim and the aggressor” and made it clear that India has every right to defend its citizens against cross-border terrorism from Pakistan and those involved in terrorism.
Notably, India’s national statement on the topic of “Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism” was presented by Bipal Kumar Deb, a Lok Sabha MP from West Tripura, in the Sixth Committee of the United Nations General Assembly. Deb is part of the 15-member Indian parliamentary delegation that has arrived in New York to attend various activities and meetings at the United Nations.
In his address, Bipal Kumar Deb strongly reacted to the statement made by the OIC Chairman regarding Jammu and Kashmir. He said the OIC had commented on India’s “limited and targeted operations” against Pakistan and the terror infrastructure in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, from where terrorist attacks against India were being planned and directed.
He said it was regrettable that those making statements on behalf of the OIC were unable to “distinguish fact from fiction” and “identify the victim and the attacker separately.”
The MP said India reserves the right to defend its people against cross-border terrorism emanating from Pakistan.
Deb also rejected the OIC’s “unnecessary reference” to the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, saying that the OIC chairman should focus on Pakistan’s illegal occupation, especially in Rawalakot, where he said the alleged killings, torture and deprivation of fundamental rights were glaring. He said that the deliberate disregard for the situation reflected “bias and intolerance”.
It may be recalled that Saudi Arabia had presented a statement on behalf of the OIC in the Sixth Committee of the United Nations General Assembly. In its statement, the OIC had referred to “military tensions” in Southeast Asia and “unjust attacks” carried out at several places in Pakistan, but did not directly name India.
Bipal Kumar Deb said that India knows from its “bitter experience” that the threat of terrorism is not merely ideological or hypothetical but a “continuous and everyday reality”. He said that for decades, the Indian people have been facing cross-border terrorism and the Pahalgam terrorist attack once again highlights the human cost of terrorism.

He stressed that all forms and manifestations of terrorism, including cross-border terrorism, are among the most serious threats facing humanity. Terrorism is not only a serious threat to global peace and security but also to economic development, democratic order and human rights.

(Straight Talk Communications I Inputs from Agencies)