Speaking at the 45th Session of UN Human Rights Council, Veronica Ekelund, Research Analyst at EFSAS, said Imran Khan and Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi have several times confessed at international platforms that their country shelters terrorists. 

Targeting Imran Khan, she said: "In July 2019, Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan told the US Institute of Peace in Washington that his country hosts 40,000 terrorists. In June 2020, Prime Minister Imran Khan referred to Al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden as a 'Martyr' in the country's Parliament."

"Pakistani officials have time and again confessed the country continues to be a safe haven for terrorists and terrorist organizations," she said.

Referring to the terror connections, she questioned Pakistan's membership in the UN Human Rights Council.

"The UN Security Council's consolidated list of terrorist individuals and entities includes 146 entries from Pakistan. With all due respect, I am compelled to ask. Why is Pakistan still a member of this august Council?", she asked.