New York, Aug. 20 -- India's Charge d'Affaires at the United Nations, Eldos Mathew Punnoos, on Tuesday (local time) highlighted the sexual violence perpetrated by Pakistan ever since 1971.

Punnoos, while delivering India's statement at the UN Security Council Open Debate on 'Conflict-Related Sexual Violence,' said that sexual crimes against women from minority communities in Pakistan continue even today, which is deplorable.

"The utter impunity with which the Pakistan army perpetrated heinous crimes of gross sexual violence against hundreds of thousands of women in erstwhile East Pakistan in 1971 is a matter of shameful record. This deplorable pattern continues unabated and with impunity to this day," he said.

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