India’s envoy at the UN Human Rights Council turned the spotlight on Pakistan Wednesday, telling the chamber that a state which hounds its own minorities has no place giving sermons on rights.
“Look homeward first,” diplomat Mohammed Hussain said in Geneva, urging Islamabad to end forced conversions, blasphemy jailings and disappearances instead of “exporting fairy-tales” about others.
The reprimand came hours after fresh bloodshed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Residents of Tirah Valley insist jet shells flattened five homes, killing 24 civilians—ten of them children—while officials blame an ammo dump blast.
Video grief poured out of the tribal belt: MP Mohammad Iqbal Afridi wept on camera, Pashtun elders said 4 000 of their people remain missing, and mourners asked why state guns answer every protest.
Independent monitors stacked up the numbers.
- 785 Baloch lifted in six months, 121 found dead.
- 700 behind bars for “blasphemy”—triple last year’s tally.
- Press freedom rank: 158 out of 180.
Nasir Aziz Khan, voice of the United Kashmir People’s National Party, told delegates that Rangers have sealed PoJK roads and silenced phones to smother a peaceful resource-rights march.
UN experts last month warned Pakistan to halt extra-judicial hits on Ahmadis, Shi’as and Hindu graves.
Hussain closed India’s statement with a single line: “Clean your own courtyard; the world can smell it from here.”