August 8, 2021
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India urges UN to decide actions in Afghanistan

India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador T S Tirumurti says the international community cannot afford to set the clock back, reports Asian Lite News

India will continue to “stand with Afghanistan in ensuring peace and stability is restored” there, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador T S Tirumurti said at a Security Council meeting.

He stressed that the future of Afghanistan can’t be its past and that terrorist safe havens in the region must be dismantled immediately and terrorist supply chains disrupted. India’s Permanent Representative to the UN said in a thinly-veiled reference to Pakistan.

He emphasized that it is time for the UN Security Council to decide on actions to ensure immediate cessation of violence in that country.

“As a neighbour of Afghanistan, the current situation prevailing in the country is of great concern to us. The violence shows no sign of abating,” Ambasador T S Tirumurti said.

Such statements came before the UNSC, under the current presidency of India. The UNSC held a meeting to discuss the Afghan situation amid increasing military offensives by the Taliban as the US forces withdrew from the war-ravaged country.

He said the international community cannot afford to set the clock back. “The future of Afghanistan cannot be its past.”

“It needs to be ensured that Afghanistan’s neighbours and the region are not threatened by terrorism, separatism and extremism. There needs to be zero tolerance for terrorism in all its forms and manifestations,” Tirumurti said.

“It is equally important to ensure that the territory of Afghanistan is not used by terrorist groups to threaten or attack any other country. Those providing material and financial support to terrorist entities must be held accountable.”

Tirumurti said it is “time for the international community and, in particular, this Council to take stock of the situation, and decide on actions” that would help bring a permanent and comprehensive ceasefire and ensure an immediate cessation of violence.

“Anything short of this will constitute a serious threat to regional peace and security,” he said.

“Necessary to ensure that the Taliban engage in negotiations in good faith, eschew the path of violence, sever ties with al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations, and fully commit itself towards reaching a political settlement,” Tirumurti said

Afghanistan says Pakistan aiding ‘Taliban war machine’

Meanwhile, Afghanistan accused Pakistan of assisting the “Taliban war machine” which has launched an all-out attack on the Afghanistan government as the US is pulling out of the country and warned about the activities of organisations like the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operating in conjunction with the Taliban.

Addressing a Security Council meeting on Afghanistan, that country’s Permanent Representative Ghulam Isaczai said: “The Taliban continues to enjoy a safe haven and supply and logistic line extended to their war machine from Pakistan” in defiance of the Council’s 1988 demand.

Isaczai said: “Graphic reports and videos of Taliban fighters congregating close to the Durand Line (marking the boundary between the two countries) to enter Afghanistan, fundraising events, transfer of dead bodies for mass burial, and treatment of injured Taliban in Pakistan hospitals are emerging and are widely available.”

“This is not only a naked violation of the 1988 UN Security Council resolution with sanction regime, but also leads to further erosion of trust and confidence towards establishing a collaborative relationship with Pakistan to work to end the war in Afghanistan,” he added.

“We urge Pakistan to help with removing and dismantling of Taliban sanctuaries and supply lines and establish with us, a joint monitoring and verification mechanism to make the fight against terrorism and international efforts for peace effective,” he said.

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