India slams Pakistan at United Nations

PTI

United Nations, 22 Sep 2017: India slammed Pakistan for supporting Terrorism and said the country has now become "Terroristan", or a land of "pure terror"

 

Pakistan has become geography synonymous with terror," India’s first secretary to the UN Eenam Gambhir said.

 

"Pakistan is now ’Terroristan’, with a flourishing industry producing and exporting global terrorism," India said while exercising its ’right of reply’ at the United Nations General Assembly.

 

"It is extraordinary that the state which protected Osama Bin Laden and sheltered Mullah Omar should have the gumption to play the victim. By now, all Pakistan’s neighbours are painfully familiar with these tactics to create a narrative based on distortions, deceptions and deceit," Gambhir said.

 

Earlier Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi had urged the United Nations to appoint a special envoy to Kashmir, as he claimed that the struggle of the people in the region is being "brutally suppressed" by India.

 

Abbasi accused India of indulging in terror activities against his country and warned of a "matching response" if it "ventures across the LoC (Line of Control)" or acts upon its doctrine of limited war against Pakistan.

 

"The Kashmir dispute should be resolved justly, peacefully and expeditiously. As India is unwilling to resume the peace process with Pakistan, we call on the Security Council to fulfil its obligation to secure the implementation of its own resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir," he added.

 

"To this end, the UN secretary general should appoint a special envoy on Kashmir. His mandate should flow from the longstanding but unimplemented resolutions of the Security Council," Abbasi said.