India lambastes Pakistan in UN: A hub of terrorism, Pakistan’s cynical attempts to spread false narrative about Kashmir always failed

New York, July 3: India on Tuesday lambasted Pakistan in the United Nations saying that the neighbouring country is a hub of terrorism in South Asia and its cynical attempts to spread a false narrative or propaganda about Kashmir have always been unsuccessful.

 

The remark from the first secretary in India's Permanent Mission to the UN Sandeep Kumar Bayyapu came after Pakistan raked up the Kashmir issue in its Right of Reply. The Pakistani official said that the High Commissioner for Human Rights has identified many violations in Kashmir and added that repeating groundless accusations does not make them fact.

Replying to the Pakistan’s false claims in UN that Kashmir was never a part of India, Sandeep Kumar Bayyapu said, “Repeated and cynical attempts by Pakistan, a hub of terrorism in our region and beyond, to spread a false narrative about the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir have not succeeded earlier and will not do so now".

While exercising the right of reply following a General Assembly debate, the Indian official asserted that New Delhi did not wish to engage on this further.

With Pakistan again referring to Kashmir in its Right of Reply on Monday, Bayyapu responded that during the session on the responsibility to protect last week, India had placed on record its rejection of yet another attempt by the delegation of Pakistan to misuse the UN forum and raise the issue of Kashmir. “India was constrained to take the floor again yesterday following Pakistan's new remarks,” he concluded.

Earlier, on June 25, in a General Assembly debate on the Responsibility to Protect, Pakistan's Ambassador to the UN Maleeha Lodhi had made a reference to the issue of Jammu and Kashmir. However, in reply, India slammed Pakistan and rejected its reference to Kashmir saying in its Right of Reply that cynical attempts by Pakistan to raise the Kashmir issue in the UN have failed in the past and do not find any resonance in the UN body.