Pakistan's permanent representative to the United Nations (UN) Maleeha Lodhi Wednesday said that Pakistan has been demonstrating patience over the 'blame game' by certain circles in Kabul and that such acts are not in the interest of the region.

Speaking during a debate on situation in Afghanistan in the UN Security Council, Lodhi said the deteriorated security situation in Afghanistan was of concern for everyone and there was no alternate option for Afghan peace, but holding a dialogue.

She said that Pakistan has clarified it to the Afghan government that the blame game is not in the interest of any of the region.

Pakistan's envoy to UN Human Rights Commission (UNHCR) Tahmina Janjua urged the organisaton to send its team to Indian-occupied Kashmir (IoK) to observe the rights violations there. She said that this would expose worst Indian atrocities in the held territory.

Janjua further stated that Pakistan backs the statement of UN rights chief on occupied Kashmir in which he said that international probe into Kashmir killings was imperative.

The deteriorating situation in Indian-occupied Kashmir has now made it crucial to establish an independent, impartial and international mission to assess the situation, the UN human rights chief Zeid Raad al-Hussein said on Wednesday, while regretting India’s lack of response to his request for access to its controlled part of the disputed state.

He told the Geneva-based Human Rights Council that he received a letter from the Government of Pakistan on Sept 9 formally inviting a team from his office to visit Azad Kashmir but only in tandem with a mission to the Indian side.

“I have yet to receive a formal letter from the government of India. I therefore request here and publicly, from the two governments, access that is unconditional to both sides of the Line of Control (LoC),” he said.

The Indian government has been under growing pressure over the level of casualties in the region during protests against Indian occupation of the territory, which broke out after the death of a popular pro-independence leader on July 8 during a gun-battle with soldiers.