Geneva, Sept. 19 -- At the ongoing 60th Session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), three UN-accredited international NGOs delivered strong oral interventions urging decisive global action against cross-border terrorism emanating from Pakistan.

The interventions came in the wake of the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack in India, where 26 civilians -- targeted solely for their religion -- were massacred while on a family holiday in Jammu and Kashmir.

The attack, attributed to Pakistan-backed Lashkar-e-Taiba militants, was described as part of a wider pattern of state-sponsored terrorism destabilising the region.

Sai Sampath Mettu of EcoFawn said the attack was "a direct assault on the right to life, freedom of movement, the right to t...