Prevent India from getting Security Council seat: Pakistani daily

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan should make all efforts to prevent India from getting a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council so that it does not get the power to block the world body’s resolutions on Kashmir, a Pakistani paper said Tuesday.

“By ignoring the UN resolutions on Kashmir, India has lost the confidence of the global community. If it gets into the Security Council and acquires the veto power, it will be able to block any movement on the Kashmir issue as well as any other matter inimical to its interests,” an editorial in the Nawa-i-Waqt said.

It claimed that UN Secretary General Ban ki-Mon has also ruled out any expansion of the Security Council and India getting a place in it during his term, which is due to end next year.

“Even after Ban Ki-moon’s term ends, India must not be allowed to become a member of the Security Council. Even if the UN wants to expand the Security Council, why must the claims of Pakistan be overlooked?”

The editorial said even as India has making all efforts to get into the Security Council, it was “unfortunate” that the Pakistani envoys to the UN and the US were “unequal to the task and playing into the hands of the Indian lobby”.

“It was their responsibility to focus the world’s attention on India’s real and perfidious face and how it is trampling on human rights in Kashmir. Our envoy to the UN, Hussain Haroon is under the spell of his Indian counterpart,” it alleged.

The editorial said that now the UN chief had ruled out any expansion in the near future, Pakistan must make a concerted effort to block India’s chances for once and all, as well as make the UN intervene in the Kashmir issue to solve it in tune with its resolutions and the Kashmiri peoples’ aspirations.