Pakistan challenges India’s eligibility for permanent UNSC membership

• Pakistan's permanent representative to UN said India is perpetrating a reign of terror with 0.9mn troops in IoK.
• He said while decrying that UNSC is unpresented, India is now seeking permanent membership for itself.

Pakistan has challenged India's qualifications for permanent or non-permanent membership of the UN Security Council (UNSC) at the United Nations.

Speaking at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, Pakistan's permanent representative to UN Munir Akram, without naming India, said that at least one of the G-4 does not, in Pakistan's view, qualify for membership of the Security Council, permanent or non-permanent.

He further said that India is in blatant violation of the resolution of the UNSC and is now perpetrating a reign of terror with 900,000 troops in Indian occupied Kashmir. He added that India has imposed a complete curfew and lockdown on 8 million people for over a 100 days and it is perpetrating massive violations of human rights against them and against its own minority communities.

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He continued that while decrying that UNSC is unpresented, India is now seeking permanent membership for itself. “The size and power of a state does not in itself, qualify it for a permanent membership of the Council or other privileges within the United Nations – a United Nations which requires the sovereign equality of all states,” Akram added.