WASHINGTON: Permanent representative to the United Nations (UN) Maleeha Lodhi said that newly appointed Secretary General António Guterres had promised to act as an “honest broker” between India and Pakistan.
Lodhi informed media of the UN chief’s assurances after their meeting on Saturday. She disclosed further details of the meeting saying that the Guterres had appreciated Pakistan’s role in the UN’s peace missions. She said he had promised to help de-escalate the increasing tensions and antipathy between the two neighbors in the past year.
The Foreign Office had earlier handed over a dossier of evidence they had collected on seditious activities that India had been carrying out within Pakistani territory. It contained a confessional statement from the Indian Navy officer working for the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) who had been captured in Balochistan. The officer, Kulbhushan Yadav, had disclosed that his objective in coming to Pakistan was to create anger and disharmony within Balochi nationalist parties in order to sabotage the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
In addition, the intelligence file provided video evidence of an Indian Navy submarine sneaking into Pakistan’s territory on November 18 last year. The submarine had been caught and checked by the Pakistan’s naval forces patrolling the waters.
The dossier also urged world governing body to ensure that India desisted from its destabilising activities in Pakistan, a long-standing practice of Indian intelligence forces especially in insurgency prone areas like FATA and Balochistan.
