Pakistan Attempts to Meddle In India’s Affairs Again, Rakes Up Ram Mandir Issue at UN Meet – News18

At the OIC ambassadorial meeting in New York, Pakistan has once again tried to meddle in India’s affairs. Pakistan’s UN envoy Munir Akram raised the issue of Ram temple consecration in Ayodhya on Wednesday. Not only that, Pakistan even went a step further, asking the UN to safeguard the “threat to the well-being” of Muslims in India.

In a letter addressed to Miguel Angel Moratinos, an official for the UN Alliance of Civilisations, Akram “condemned the construction and consecration” of the Ram Temple. “This trend poses a significant threat to the social, economic, and political well-being of Indian Muslims, as well as to the harmony and peace in the region,” he alleged in the letter shared during the meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).

This is not the first time that Pakistan has made such attempts to interfere in India’s internal affairs. In the past, it has unsuccessfully tried to internationalise the Kashmir issue at the UN stage. Earlier this week, top government sources in New Delhi told CNN-News18 that Pakistan has no business in Ayodhya’s Ram Mandir.

“We are not a banana republic like them — where judiciary is fixed and works on the directions of the ISI (Pakistani spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence),” foreign ministry officials said, in a reference to Pakistan’s much-criticised judicial system.

They underlined the court proceedings that preceded the construction of the temple and added that India’s top court had heard the matter.  “This case has undergone many decades of judicial scrutiny. It has gone through all courts, including the apex court. No major judgment was by a single bench, and minority judges were also involved in the verdict,” the officials said.

Highlighting that India has given space to all religions, the officials added that Pakistan was trying to create trouble by provoking Indian Muslims who took part in celebrations in the Uttar Pradesh city of Ayodhya, where the deity’s pran pratishtha ceremony took place in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.