NEW YORK: Citing Kashmir and Palestine, Pakistani diplomat has told a key UN committee that countries were resorting to disinformation and fake news in situations of foreign occupation to subdue the voices of people being refused their fundamental freedoms, including the right to self-determination.
Pakistan’s Permanent Ambassador to the UN, Munir Akram told the Committee on Information that they are witnessing this today in the Gaza war and have also witnessed this consistently in the case of occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
The Deputy Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations, Ambassador Usman Jadoon, is presiding over the session of the committee.
On the occasion, Ambassador Akram greeted his colleague, saying, “You are chairing the 46th session of the Committee on Information symbolizes Pakistan’s commitment to multilateralism and the UN’s information agenda.”
Ambassador Akram expressed regret that the use of digital media is turbocharging the spread of disinformation to promote Islamophobia to justify foreign occupation and aggression to turn victims of aggression into the culprits.
