'Terrorism against India will inevitably invite consequences', India's Fierce Response To Pakistan PM's UN Speech

India on Friday exercised its 'Right of Reply' in response to Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's remarks on Jammu and Kashmir in his address in the UN General Assembly (UNGA) session being held in New York.

New Delhi: India on Friday exercised its ‘Right of Reply’ in response to Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s remarks on Jammu and Kashmir in his address in the UN General Assembly (UNGA) session being held in New York.

Young Indian diplomat Bhavika Mangalanandan in a fierce response called the speech “hypocrisy at its worst” on Pakistan’s part that has used terrorism as an instrument of state policy and has had “the audacity to attack the world's largest democracy.”

Delivering India’s Right of Reply (RoR) at the 79th session of the UNGA, the First Secretary at Permanent Mission of India to the UN in New York said, “As the world knows, Pakistan has long employed cross border terrorism as a weapon against its neighbors, it has attacked our parliament, our financial capital, Mumbai, marketplaces and pilgrimage routes. The list is long for such a country to speak about violence anywhere is hypocrisy at its worstâ€æ”

Calling Jammu and Kashmir, an inalienable and integral part of India, she added, “A reference has been made to some proposal of ‘Strategic Restraint’. There can be no compact with terrorism. In fact, Pakistan should realise that cross-border terrorism against India will inevitably invite consequences.”

Pakistan on Friday had once again raised the issue of Kashmir at the UNGA. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had said that to “secure durable peace”, revocation of the abrogation of Article 370 is essential.

He also hailed Burhan Wani, a terrorist killed by the Indian forces in the valley, as hero on social media platform X.

“India’s policy of brutal coersion and oppression, in occupied Kashmir has ensured, that Burhan Wani’s legacy, continues to inspire, the struggle and sacrifices, of millions of Kashmiris. Inspired by the legitimacy, of their epic struggle, they remain defiant,” Shehbaz Sharif had posted.

To a response on Sharif’s remarks on minorities in India, the Indian diplomat said, “It is ridiculous that a nation that committed genocide in 1960 71 and which persecutes its minorities relentlessly. Even now, dare speak about intolerances and phobias. The world can see for itself what Pakistan really is, Mr. President.”

She added, “We are talking about a nation that for long hosted Osama bin Laden, a country whose fingerprints are on so many terrorist incidents across the world, whose policies attract the dregs of many societies to make it their home. Perhaps it should come as no surprise that its prime minister would so speak in this hallowed Hall. Yet we must make clear how unacceptable his words are to all of us.”

Pakistan also exercised its Right of Reply immediately after the Indian side had spoken, reiterating the position of Pakistan on the matter.