Observer Report New York
Pakistan has called on the UN Security Council to act boldly in protecting civilians and critical infrastructure during conflict.
Pakistan s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Munir Akram in a statement submitted to a meeting of the Council said empirical evidence shows that attacks on cultural and religious sites have often been used to advance military or political objectives and to suppress demand of people exercise their right to self-determination.
He said quite often such occupied territories are subjected to round-the-clock curfews, communications blackouts, illegal and arbitrary detention, forced disappearances and extrajudicial killings of youth.
