Pakistan must realize that cross-border terrorism against India will have consequences: Delhi’s strong right of reply in the UNGA

United Nations, September 28: In a strong response, India has criticized Pakistan in the UN General Assembly, saying its ‘fingerprints’ cover terrorist incidents around the world and the country should realize that cross-border terrorism against India’ will inevitably have consequences’ ”.

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India on Friday exercised its right of reply in the UN General Assembly in response to Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif raising the Jammu and Kashmir issue in his speech during the General Debate of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly .
“This House unfortunately witnessed a travesty this morning. A country ruled by the military, with a global reputation for terrorism, narcotics trafficking and transnational crime, has had the audacity to attack the world’s largest democracy,” said Bhavika Mangalanandan, First Secretary of the Permanent Mission of India to the UN, which declared India’s right of reply.
She alleged that Pakistan, as the world knows, has long been using cross-border terrorism as a weapon against its neighbors.
“It has attacked our parliament, our financial capital Mumbai, marketplaces and pilgrimage routes,” she said, referring to the attack on India’s parliament in 2001 and the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks carried out by Pakistan-based terror groups.
“The list is long. If such a country talks about violence anywhere, it is hypocrisy at its worst,” Mangalanandan said.
In his speech, Sharif, as expected, raised the Kashmir issue and said that to “secure lasting peace”, India must roll back the abrogation of Article 370 and engage in dialogue for a “peaceful” resolution of the issue.
He said India has rejected Pakistan’s proposals for a mutual “Strategic Restraint Regime”.
In response to this reference “to some proposal of strategic restraint,” India asserted that “no deal with terrorism is possible. In fact, Pakistan should realize that cross-border terrorism against India will inevitably have consequences.” Reminding the international community that this was a country that long harbored Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, Mangalanandan said Pakistan “has the fingerprints of so many terrorist incidents around the world, whose policies arouse the fear of many societies to make it their home. “Perhaps it should come as no surprise that the Prime Minister would speak like this in this hallowed hall. Yet we must make it clear how unacceptable his words are to all of us. We know that Pakistan will try to fight the truth with more lies. Repetition won’t change anything. Our position is clear and needs no repetition,” she said.
India emphasized that it is even more exceptional for a country with a history of rigged elections to talk about political choices, even in a democracy. “The real truth is that Pakistan covets our territory, and in fact has continuously used terrorism to disrupt the elections in Jammu and Kashmir, an inalienable and integral part of India,” the young Indian diplomat said.
She said it is ridiculous that a nation that committed genocide in 1971 and that even now ruthlessly persecutes its minorities “dares to talk about bigotry and phobias. The world can see with its own eyes what Pakistan really is.” A Pakistani diplomat then responded to Mangalanandan with a right of reply. Describing India’s claims as “baseless and misleading”, the Pakistani diplomat said the United Nations Security Council, through numerous resolutions, has unequivocally called for a free, impartial plebiscite to enable the people of Jammu and Kashmir to realize their inalienable exercise the right to self-determination. .
Every year, Pakistani leaders predictably refer to Jammu and Kashmir in their UNGA speeches, and India calls on its young diplomats to deliver tough responses to Islamabad’s rants. (agencies)