Kashmir issue: India slammed Pakistan for raising the issue of Kashmir during an emergency special session of the UN General Assembly on the Ukraine conflict. It also exercised it`s ‘Right of Reply’ at UNGA against Pakistan and advised Islamabad to look at its track record as a state that provides safe heavens to terrorists.
India said Islamabad deserved the “collective contempt” of the international community for such statements and “sympathy for a mindset which repeatedly utters falsehoods”.
Misuse of forum
“Before I conclude, Mr President, one final point,” India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj, said. “We have witnessed unsurprisingly yet again an attempt by one delegation to misuse this forum and make frivolous and pointless remarks against my country. Such statements deserve our collective contempt and sympathy for a mindset which repeatedly utters falsehoods,” Kamboj said.
“It is important, however, to set the record straight. The entire territory of Jammu and Kashmir is and will always be an integral and inalienable part of India irrespective of what the representative of Pakistan believes or covets. We call on Pakistan to stop cross-border terrorism so that our citizens can enjoy their right to life and liberty,” Kamboj said.
‘Pakistan safe haven to terrorists’
Indian Counsellor Pratik Mathur said, “Pakistan has only to look at itself and its track record as a State that harbours and provides safe havens to terrorists and does so with impunity.” He also advised the Pakistani delegation to refer to the numerous Right of Replies that India has exercised in the past.
Mathur said, “I am taking the floor to say that India chooses this time not to respond to Pakistan`s mischievous provocations. Our advice to the delegate of Pakistan is to refer to the numerous RoRs that we have exercised in the past.”
‘Pak provocation regrettable’
Calling out Pakistan`s uncalled-for provocation “regrettable”, Mathur also said that after two days of intense discussions, all the members present in the UN have agreed that the path of peace can be the only path to resolve conflict and discord. India`s most wanted Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba`s (LeT) deputy chief Abdul Rehman Makki was designated as “global terrorist” in January.
Earlier, Pakistan’s ambassador to the UN Munir Akram raised the issue of Kashmir, saying that under international law, the right of self-determination applies to peoples who are under foreign or colonial domination and those who have not yet exercised the right to self-determination “as in the case of Jammu and Kashmir”.
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