Pakan’s response to EAM Jaishankar an admission of longstanding practice of terrorism: India at UN | World News

India hit out at Pakan at the UN after Islamabad responded to remarks External Affairs Miner S Jaishankar on terrorism, even though Pakan was not named in his speech.
“It is telling that a neighbour who was not named chose to nevertheless respond and admit their longstanding practice of cross-border terrorism,” said Rentala Srinivas, Second Secretary in India’s Permanent Mission to the UN, delivering the Right of Reply.
He said, “Pakan’s reputation speaks for itself. Its fingerprints are so visible in terrorism across so many geographies. It is a menace not only to its neighbours but to the entire world.” He added, “No arguments or untruths can ever whitewash the crimes of terroran.”
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When the Pakani delegate again took the floor, Srinivas walked out of the hall.
In its Right of Reply, the Pakani delegate accused India of attempting to “malign Pakan” with “malicious accusations” about terrorism, even though Jaishankar had not named the country in his address while talking about the scourge of terrorism. The Pakani delegate claimed that India’s allegations were a “deliberate attempt to repeat lies”.
Jaishankar’s remarks on terrorism
External Affairs Miner Jaishankar told the UN General Assembly that “major international terror attacks are traced back to that one country.” Without naming Pakan, he referred to a “neighbour that is an epicentre of global terrorism” and said India has faced this challenge since independence.
He urged the international community to condemn states that adopt terrorism as policy, operate hubs on an industrial scale, and glorify terrors. He called for choking financing, sanctioning individuals, and applying “relentless pressure on the entire terrorism eco-system.”Story continues below this ad
Jaishankar said the UN’s l of designated terrors “is replete with its nationals”. In his 16-minute address, Jaishankar, without naming Pakan, told the world body that “India exercised its right to defend its people against terrorism and brought its organisers and perpetrators to justice” after the Pahalgam terror attack in April this year.
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