India criticizes Pak Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s speech

United Nations/New Delhi, Sep 28 (UNI) In a strong rebuttal, India denounced Pakistan for its tirade against the country at the UN and reminded the world of Islamabad’s concessions to terrorism, harboring Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, to the genocide of millions of Bengalis in the former East Pakistan, to the continued persecution of its minorities and to his cross-border terrorist attacks on India.

Young Indian diplomat Bhavika Mangalanandan attacked Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for his UNGA speech targeting India, where he raised the Kashmir issue and accused New Delhi of ‘Islamophobia’. country ruled by the military and which “has a global reputation for terrorism, drug trafficking and transnational crime”, to “dare to attack the world’s largest democracy”.

She reminded the world of Islamabad using cross-border terrorism as a weapon against India, the 2001 attack on Parliament carried out by the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed, the 2008 Mumbai attacks carried out by the Pak-based LeT, and other terror attacks on India.

“The list is long (of terror attacks against India). For such a country to talk about violence anywhere is hypocrisy at its worst,” she said.

“It is even more extraordinary for a country with a history of rigged elections to talk about political choices, even in a democracy,” she said, just as former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf has consistently claimed that the February 2024 general elections in Pakistan were manipulated to keep out his party, which enjoys massive support.

“The real truth is that Pakistan covets our territory and has in fact continuously used terrorism to disrupt elections in Jammu and Kashmir, an inalienable and integral part of India,” Mangalanandan said.

“Reference has been made to a proposal of strategic restraint. There can be no similarity with terrorism. In fact, Pakistan should realize that cross-border terrorism against India will inevitably have consequences.”

“It is ridiculous that a nation that committed genocide in 1971 and a nation that persecutes its minorities even now dares to talk about bigotry and phobia. The world can see with its own eyes what Pakistan really is,” she stated.

“We’re talking about a nation that sheltered Osama bin Laden for a long time. A country whose fingerprints are on so many terrorist incidents around the world, a country whose policies are attracting the dregs 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 would try to fight the truth with more lies.

“Repetition won’t change anything. Our position is clear and needs no repetition,” she said firmly.

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