- Thursday, February 27, 2025
Indian diplomat Patel Gahlot tore into Islamabad after the Pakistani caretaker prime minister raked up the issue at the United Nations General Assembnly session.
By: Shubham Ghosh
INDIA on Friday (22) slammed Pakistan at the United Nations asking it to stop cross-border terrorism, dismantle terror infrastructure on its soil and vacate Indian territories that it has illegally occupied.
The response came after Pakistan’s interim prime minister Anwar ul Haq Kakar raked up the Kashmir issue in his address to the 78th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.
Exercising its right to reply to Pakistan’s expression at the UNGA, New Delhi hit out at Islamabad accusing it of misusing international forums to peddle propaganda against it. It also said that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India and Pakistan had no locus standi to make a remark on the issue.
First Secretary at United Nations for 2nd Committee of UNGA, Petal Gahlot says "As a country with one of the world's worst human rights records, particularly when it comes to minority and women's rights, Pakistan would do well to put its own house in order before venturing to… pic.twitter.com/GV52GmDZMV
— ANI (@ANI) September 23, 2023
“Pakistan has become a habitual offender when it comes to misusing this forum to peddle baseless and malicious propaganda against India. Member states of the UN and other multilateral organisations are well aware that Pakistan does so to deflect the international community’s attention away from its own abysmal record on human rights,” Petal Gahlot, India’s first secretary at UN for the second committee of UNGA, said.
“We reiterate that the Union Territories (UTs) of Jammu and Kashmir are an integral part of India. Matters pertaining to the UTs of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are purely internal to India. Pakistan has no locus standi to comment on our domestic matters,” she said.
“In order for there to be peace in South Asia, the actions that Pakistan needs to take are threefold. First, stop cross-border terrorism and shut down its infrastructure of terrorism immediately. Second, vacate Indian territories under its illegal and forcible occupation. And third, stop the grave and persistent human rights violations against the minorities in Pakistan,” the young Indian diplomat added.
Gahlot also said Pakistan should take credible and verifiable action against the perpetrators of the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, instead of “engaging in technical sophistry”.
She also took on India’s western neighbour over its human rights records — including minority and women rights — and said it would do well to put its own house in order before pointing a finger to the world’s largest democracy.
In September 2021, the UNGA remained witness to yet another instance when a junior Indian diplomat Sneha Dubey lashed out at former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan after he raked up the Kashmir issue on the global forum, saying the neighbouring country is an “arsonist” in the guise of a “fire fighter”.
Sneha Dubey, India's First Secretary at UN rebuttal to Pak PM Imran Khan speech: Pakistan continues to glorify Osama Bin Laden as a "martyr" & at same time acts as "victim" of terr0rism. Pakistan is a country which is an "arsonist disguising itself as a firefighter"?? #UNGA pic.twitter.com/Ut4tHlZQuC
— Rosy (@rose_k01) September 25, 2021
“Pakistan nurtures terrorists in its backyard in the hope that they will only harm its neighbours. Osama Bin Laden got shelter in Pakistan. Even today, the Pakistan leadership glorify him as a ‘martyr’”, Dubey said.
