Countries discuss evolving trends of terrorism amid COVID 19 pandemic in UN Counter terrorism Week

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This week’s episode of News Week South Asia focuses on the UN Virtual Counter-Terrorism Week held from 6th to 10th July in which diplomats from several countries and associated groups discussed the threat posed by terrorism to world peace and harmony. Taking an indirect jibe at Pakistan, the UN chief specifically mentioned the terrorist groups active in South Asia saying that such groups are looking forward to taking inadequate advantage of the coronavirus pandemic situation. India in its statement during the webinar, emphasized upon Pakistan’s unrelenting support to terrorism amidst the ongoing pandemic. India, during the conference, called on the international community to ask Pakistan to take sustained, verifiable and irreversible actions against terror outfits operating on the territory under its control. Despite facing repeated global condemnation for its terror sponsoring policy, Pakistan does not stop its ill-motivated activities at Line of Control and in the hinterland of Jammu and Kashmir. Recently, Indian army foiled a major infiltration bid of Pakistan backed terrorists in India's northern Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir. The infiltration attempt was supported by the Pakistani troops who launched unprovoked cross border shelling along Mendhar and Balakote sectors of Poonch and Rajouri region killing an elderly woman and injuring another civilian. Even after committing such heinous crimes against the population of Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan still keeps the audacity to say that it is worried about Kashmiris. Recently Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan took to twitter to vent his frustration of failure at India, a neighbour his entire country has been insecure of for seven decades…as expected there were no takers of his shallow social media rhetoric. In fact he has been mocked and shown a mirror by Kashmiri activists who are suffering in exile due to his own government’s atrocities. In Afghanistan, the Taliban has not put a halt to an all out offensive on the battleground. Dozens of Afghan security forces and civilians are being killed on a daily basis. In a recent wave of violence in Afghanistan, at least 47 security personnel and 17 civilians were killed and several others were wounded. The violence has forever been a key obstacle to any negotiations between the Taliban and the Kabul government which were envisaged by the U.S.-Taliban deal signed in late February to end 19 years of war in Afghanistan. Standing firm against the violence by Taliban, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani once again warned that bloodshed by the Taliban is threatening the country's peace process.

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