By Usman Khan

On 24th September 2021 last month, Pakistan's first visually-impaired Pakistani UN delegate delivered a superb speech.Saima Saleem made volte-face of India and its diplomats due to her fiery speech at the 76th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)

Ms. SaimaSaleem, Pakistan's young visually-impaired woman diplomat, is currently serving at the country’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Saima graduated from Lahore's Kinnaird College for Women. She won the Quaid-e-Azam Gold Medal for her outstanding academic performance and stood first in the Punjab Public Service Commission examination. The first differently-abled female Pakistani diplomat, SaimaSaleem was born on August 10, 1984. In her early years, she was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa- an incurable eye disease that made Saleem blind at the age of 13.

According to sources, when Saima applied for CSS, she requested the Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC) to hold a computer-based exam for her. However, the FPSC declined to conduct a computer exam because they were always conducted on paper. Saleemchased her case by mentioning the ordinance approved in 2005. The press release issued in this regard said the government will facilitate candidates with optical impairment and they will be allowed to take exams on the computer. She became the first blind Civil Servant of Pakistan. Saima is a motivational orator and a writer. She has expertise in international human rights and international humanitarian law, public and economic diplomacy.

While exercising her right of reply in UNGA, Saimaspokethe way seems very impressive which won the hearts of millions of Pakistanis and exposes India’s lies. Saima is a strong advocate of worldwide peace and harmony. She stated that it is India that approves state-terrorism in the occupied territory of Kashmir in a response to an Indian diplomat's allegations against Pakistan in UN General Assembly. She spoke at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) 2021 in the exercise of her country's right of reply and rejected the false accusations leveled by Indian diplomat SnehaDubey.

Saima Saleem categorically refuted the Indian diplomat rhetoric that Jammu and Kashmir is "an integral part of India", and continued to define India's brutal military occupation of the disputed territory. She reminded delegates of numerous United Nations Security Council resolutions to this effect. Saima spoke of the Indian government's sheer human rights violations uncovered by the UN Human Rights Commission and other rights organizations.

Saima said Indian leadership is fanatical with Pakistan. She also shared EU Disinfo Lab's recent revelation of the latitude, gauge and extent of India's massive disinformation campaign against Pakistan. She truly exposed the face of the nastiest and most inescapable form of Islam-phobia now rules India as the sick-Hindutva dogma, disseminated by the fascist RSS-BJP regime, has released a reign of fear and violence against India’s 200 million-strong Muslim community. Rejecting India's allegations of terrorism against Pakistan, MS Saima said India's arguments are those of an occupier seeking to delegitimize popular resistance as "terrorism".We should feel proudSaimaSaleem makes Pakistan proud by giving a befitting and outstanding response to India at the UNGA.

It is an example that the Women of Pakistan making inroads of progress by breaking barriers & setting new standards of excellence throughout the world. Wearing the colors of Pakistan's flag and reading from braille, Saima Saleem' speech came as a response to Indian delegate SnehaDubey's allegations about Pakistan's connection in terrorism in the Indian occupied Himalayan territory.

 Earlier before, India's diplomat said Pakistan plays the 'victim' of terrorism and spoke about Pakistan's link to terrorism by claiming it provided a safe haven to the al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and hurled baseless allegations by state-sponsored suppression of the minorities in Pakistan.

To which, Saima said, "India remains in occupation of an internationally accepted disputed territory whose final nature needs to be decided in accordance with the democratic principle of a free and impartial plebiscite under UN auspices, as provided for under abundant resolutions of the Security Council."

Saimaproceeded by telling and throwing light on four different types of terrorism for which India was responsible. She spoke at the length and breadth about 'state terrorism' of India to suppress legitimate Kashmiris freedom movement from the clutches of India in the occupied Jammu and Kashmir valley. She spoke about India funding terrorist organizations such as Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and projected the Doval doctrine and India's furtive operations against Pakistan. She cited the capture of an Indian spy involved in sabotage activities in different parts of Pakistan and how India had funded mercenary terrorist organizations against Pakistan and finished her response by conveying her strong message to India’sbigot ideology obsessedPakistan.She also asked the UN to hold India accountable for its crimes against humanity. At last, Saima applauded and praised the world over for her courage and for using braille for the first time at the UNGA.