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Sat, 03/26/2011 - 08:44
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Pakistani analyst condemns UNHRC resolution against Iran
Islamabad, March 26, IRNA – Senior Pakistani analyst on Friday strongly condemned United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution against Iran terming it as 'unjustified'.
Dr. Shireen M. Mazari talking to IRNA added that the aim of the resolution is to target Iran politically.
Under the US pressure, UNHRC on Thursday voted for the appointment of a special human rights rapporteur for the Islamic Republic of Iran.
“US always uses UN for their own purposes”, noted Mazari.
Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast denouncing the US-sponsored resolution has said that the resolution by the Geneva-based monitoring council, was highly politicized, adding that the 'illegitimate' resolution was adopted under the US pressure.
'The aim of the resolution was to put pressure on the Islamic Republic and to further side track the current process of the UN Human Rights Council' periodic review of the human rights situation across the world,” Mehmanparast noted
Mazari, expressing her views, said that the reaction of Iran on the resolution is quite justified.
She was of the view that US policies are hypocritical and paradoxical. “We have many complaints regarding human rights abuses in those countries which are US allies”, she pointed out. “They have double standards”, the intellectual believed.
The analyst said condemnation of human rights abuses is very selective by the UN. “They have failed to bring any resolution over human rights violations in Bahrain and some other Arab countries”, said Mazari.
The analyst strongly condemned burning of the Quran in US terming it as an act of collective human rights abuse of Muslims.
She added that the resolution against Iran is politically motivated and has nothing to do with human rights.
Mazari stated that US should first take out its own human rights record instead of worrying about human rights violations across the world.
Earlier this Month, the UNHRC, in a report, reviewed the United States' human rights record for the first time in its history. The council then issued a document making 228 suggestions to the US to improve its rights record.
In recent years, many human rights organizations have condemned the US over wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and its treatment of prisoners in the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison and the Abu Ghraib jail near Baghdad.
Mazari is a scholar and commentator on Strategic Studies and Political Science from Pakistan. She has also served as Director General of Institute of Strategic Studies, a research think-tank based in Islamabad, Pakistan./end
Dr. Shireen M. Mazari talking to IRNA added that the aim of the resolution is to target Iran politically.
Under the US pressure, UNHRC on Thursday voted for the appointment of a special human rights rapporteur for the Islamic Republic of Iran.
“US always uses UN for their own purposes”, noted Mazari.
Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast denouncing the US-sponsored resolution has said that the resolution by the Geneva-based monitoring council, was highly politicized, adding that the 'illegitimate' resolution was adopted under the US pressure.
'The aim of the resolution was to put pressure on the Islamic Republic and to further side track the current process of the UN Human Rights Council' periodic review of the human rights situation across the world,” Mehmanparast noted
Mazari, expressing her views, said that the reaction of Iran on the resolution is quite justified.
She was of the view that US policies are hypocritical and paradoxical. “We have many complaints regarding human rights abuses in those countries which are US allies”, she pointed out. “They have double standards”, the intellectual believed.
The analyst said condemnation of human rights abuses is very selective by the UN. “They have failed to bring any resolution over human rights violations in Bahrain and some other Arab countries”, said Mazari.
The analyst strongly condemned burning of the Quran in US terming it as an act of collective human rights abuse of Muslims.
She added that the resolution against Iran is politically motivated and has nothing to do with human rights.
Mazari stated that US should first take out its own human rights record instead of worrying about human rights violations across the world.
Earlier this Month, the UNHRC, in a report, reviewed the United States' human rights record for the first time in its history. The council then issued a document making 228 suggestions to the US to improve its rights record.
In recent years, many human rights organizations have condemned the US over wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and its treatment of prisoners in the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison and the Abu Ghraib jail near Baghdad.
Mazari is a scholar and commentator on Strategic Studies and Political Science from Pakistan. She has also served as Director General of Institute of Strategic Studies, a research think-tank based in Islamabad, Pakistan./end
