Pakistan regrets Kashmir’s omission in UN report on child rights violations

Pakistani envoy on Thursday expressed regret that the plight of children in the Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir was omitted without justification in the UN Secretary General’s latest report. Speaking in the 15-member Council’s debate on ‘Children and Armed Conflict’, Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad said that record high child rights violations were leaving “countless young lives maimed, starved, burned, frozen to death, or weakened by severe malnutrition.” In this regard, he drew attention to, among others hotspots, the suffering of children in war-shattered Gaza and Indian-occupied Kashmir.