Mysterious force behind Anti-Pakistan campaign in Geneva

Just ahead of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) 36h session taking place in Geneva, Switzerland, an anti-Pakistan campaign has sprouted in different parts of the city. The campaign entails a comprehensive use of posters, standees, flyers, billboards and use of buses and rickshaws to spread the message of hate against Pakistan and demanding a separate Baluchistan.

Due to this multi-faceted anti-Pakistan campaign in Geneva, relations between Pakistan and Switzerland have started deteriorating and now the country has asked for an explanation and investigation into the campaign from the Swiss government.

According to reports, the anti-Pakistan cannonade is seen on billboards, trams, buses, rickshaws, websites and it is being run through an army of paid volunteers who don’t even know who they are working for. It has been learnt that the Indian mission in Geneva is controlling these activities and the local Swiss establishment has been paid very heavily in commercial deals for running this campaign across its public transport, road network and private business venues.

The campaign has been launched at a very strategic time when the 36th session of the UNHRC is underway and delegates from all across the world are visiting. The anti-Pakistan posters have been placed on local trams running around the UNHRC building and buses with routes leading to and around the UN building.

Ambassador Farukh Amil, who is a permanent representative of Pakistan to the UN, has written to Swiss authorities to take action against such blatant attack on Pakistan’s sovereignty.

Pakistan told the Swiss envoy that activities on its soil were against “Pakistan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, in contravention of the UN Charter and international law”.

Ambassador Amil told Swiss authorities in his letter that “it is quite conceivable that local city authorities received certain revenue fee for display of these posters,” stressing that the posters were “a flagrant attack on [the] sovereignty and territorial integrity of Pakistan”.

“The use of Swiss soil by terrorists and violent secessionists for nefarious designs against Pakistan and its 200 million people is totally unacceptable,” said the ambassador, demanding that the incident be “fully investigated with a view to blocking its recurrence in the future”.

The ambassador also expressed hope that the Swiss authorities would “proceed against the local accomplices of the BLA and deal with those individual/companies”.

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