India slams Pakistan for ‘peddling lies’ on Kashmir

“A (Pakistani) delegation has yet again utilized this august forum for peddling lies and falsehood. It is habitual for this delegation to edifice to disinformation and misinformation, including successful this forum. This delegation tends to measurement the world’s largest ideology utilizing akin yardsticks,” helium said.

Delivering a beardown retort successful the UN statement aft Pakistan raised the contented of Jammu and Kashmir, Shukla said, “Let maine beryllium clear. Real democracies relation differently. The radical of Jammu and Kashmir turned retired successful grounds numbers successful the precocious concluded escaped and just elections.” Assembly elections were held successful Jammu and Kashmir successful 3 phases from September 18 to October 1.

“No magnitude of disinformation and misinformation volition alteration facts connected the ground. I impulse this delegation to prosecute much constructively successful this forum, alternatively than utilizing it for their divisive, governmental agenda,” Shukla said.
The Congress person is portion of a delegation of 12 MPs from India for divers engagements astatine the UN.

Shukla said that guided by the rule of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’, which means the satellite is 1 family, India emphasises that accusation indispensable transcend barriers of nationality, gender, religion oregon culture.

“An informed citizenry plays a captious relation successful combating misinformation, curbing corruption and holding governments accountable,” helium said.

The lawmaker said that aligned with antiauthoritarian values, India believes successful empowering radical done reliable accusation for the corporate advancement of humanity. Shukla underlined that misinformation and disinformation proceed to airs superior risks, undermining spot successful nationalist institutions and dividing communities.

“In addressing these challenges, it is captious to besides see the menace posed by integer fraud. Digital fraud encompasses a scope of deceptive activities conducted online that exploit financial, idiosyncratic oregon concern information, posing important threats to individuals, businesses and nationalist security,” helium said, adding that to antagonistic these challenges, India has made important strides successful expanding integer entree and combating integer fraud.

On UN peacekeeping, Shukla said India is acrophobic astir the information of the UN peacekeepers successful the field.
“We underscore the value of this captious issue, and impulse the Department of Global Communications (DGC) to enactment unneurotic with tract missions and tailor its connection strategies accordingly to code it,” helium said.

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Maintaining the peacekeeping websites successful section languages would beryllium a utile measurement to further broaden the outreach of this information, helium opined.

Shukla voiced appreciation for DGC’s committedness to multilingualism, recognising the value of connection beyond the six authoritative UN languages of Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.

“The occurrence of UN societal media accounts successful Hindi, which person gained important followings, highlights the value of outreach successful divers languages. Expanding specified efforts volition heighten planetary inclusivity and foster greater engagement with communities successful their autochthonal languages,” Shukla said.