Pakistan tries to up ante but UNSC seeks accountability for Pahalgam attack | India News – The Times of India

The UN Safety Council (UNSC) closed-door assembly on rising India-Pakistan tensions expectedly failed to yield any substantive end result for Pakistan. In accordance to Indian authorities sources, Pakistan’s efforts to internationalise the difficulty made little headway with the Council because it suggested Islamabad to resolve points bilaterally with India and sought accountability for the Pahalgam terrorist attack, whereas expressing considerations over Pakistan’s nuclear rhetoric and missile exams. Whereas views had been expressed individually by some after the consultations, the Council didn’t collectively make any assertion. The least Pakistan would have hoped for is an oral assertion by the Council president. Not taken in by what the Indian facet noticed as diplomatic grandstanding by Pakistan, which is a non-everlasting Council member at the moment, the member-states are learnt to have condemned the Pahalgam attack within the 90-minute assembly and posed “powerful questions” concerning the doubtless involvement of UN-proscribed Pakistan based mostly terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba. Former Indian everlasting consultant to UN Syed Akbaruddin mentioned Pakistan’s quest to resurrect an agenda merchandise which has not been deliberated upon formally since 1965 by the Council expectedly didn’t take off.“The lack of a response by the Council to Pakistan’s briefing is a vindication of the Indian stance,” mentioned Akbaruddin, who was India’s ambassador to the UN when Pakistan final sought closed-door consultations by way of China in 2019. That was after India revoked the particular standing of J&Okay in August 2019. The 2019 assembly too had ended with none end result or formal assertion although China had strongly pushed for it. Closed-door conferences comprise casual discussions which are held not within the Council room but in an adjoining chamber with restricted quantity of delegates. For Pakistan, like in 2019, the most recent assembly too was extra an train in managing public notion than advancing any significant discussions, although the consultations had been held beneath the India-Pakistan Query that relates to J&Okay and never beneath, because it was meant to be initially, the generic “Threats to Worldwide Peace and Safety” agenda merchandise.Within the assembly, in accordance to sources right here who spoke on situation of anonymity, members disapproved of the false flag narrative initially propounded by Pakistan and requested “powerful questions” concerning the doubtless involvement of UN proscribed terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba within the attack. There have been questions additionally concerning the focusing on of vacationers based mostly on their spiritual id. “There was broad condemnation of the terrorist attack and recognition of the necessity for accountability. Some members particularly introduced up the focusing on of vacationers on the premise of their spiritual religion,’’ mentioned a supply, including many members expressed concern that Pakistan’s missile exams and nuclear rhetoric had been escalatory components.Some Council members earlier than the assembly had been reported to have backed the thought of an impartial worldwide investigation into the attack. In accordance to the Safety Council Report, China and Greece appeared to have already indicated – earlier than the assembly – their assist for such an investigation. Such a probe although will want the consent of each India and Pakistan.Pakistan issued an announcement after the assembly wherein it mentioned that Council members expressed “deep concern” concerning the danger of escalation and urged restraint. It additionally claimed a number of members underscored that the J&Okay dispute remained the basis trigger of regional instability.