PAKISTAN DENOUNCES UN REPORT FOR OMITTING VIOLENCE IN IIOJK , PALESTINE

WITH a forceful call for its rectification, Pakistan on Saturday denounced a United Nations report on conflictrelated sexual violence for not including heinous crimes and violence committed in Indian Illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIoJK) and Palestine

Addressing the UN Security Council which met to examine implementation of its resolutions on conflict-related sexual violence, Pakistan ambassador Munir Akram said “There is ample documented evidence that since 1989 Indian occupation forces have used rape and sexual violence as a weapon of war in occupied Kashmir ” The meeting was convened by the United Kingdom (UK) which holds the rotating presidency of the 15member Council this month APP reported Opening the debate, Pramila Patten, Special Representative of the SecretaryGeneral on Sexual Violence in Conflict, said that rising militarisation and arms proliferation is bringing conflicts across the globe to a boiling point with gang rape sexual slavery and other forms of sexual violence being used as tactics of war torture and terrorism Patten presented data from her latest report, published last month, which documented 2,455 UN-verified cases of wartime rape committed during 2022 Women and girls accounted for 94% with 6% against men and boys with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) again accounting for the highest number of cases – 701 atten also detailed horrors committed in other countries, such as Haiti, Ethiopia and Iraq Serious allegations of conflict-related sexual violence in Sudan have also surfaced since fighting erupted in April R e a c t i n g t o t h e r e p o r t t h e P a k i s t a n i envoy said, The credibility of the report is seriously eroded because of what looks like