NEW DELHI: India in response to Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s address on Friday said that the UNGA witness a travesty.
"A country, run by the military, with a global reputation for terrorism, narcotics trade and transnational crime has had the audacity to attack the world’s largest democracy. I speak about the references to India in the speech of the Pakistani PM,’’ said Indian diplomat Bhavika Mangalanandan in New York.
She said that the Pakistan has long employed cross-border terrorism as a weapon against its neighbours and world knows it.
"It has attacked our Parliament, our financial capital Mumbai, market places and pilgrimage routes. The list is long. For such a country to speak about violence anywhere is hypocrisy at its worst,’’ she added.
Pakistan which has a history of rigged elections to talk about political choices, that too in a democracy was extraordinary, she said.
"The real truth is that Pakistan covets our territory. And in fact, has continuously used terrorism to disrupt elections in Jammu and Kashmir, an inalienable and integral part of India,’’ Bhavika added.
"A reference has been made to some proposal of strategic restraint. There can be no compact with terrorism. In fact, Pakistan should realize that cross-border terrorism against India will inevitably invite consequences. It is ridiculous that a nation that committed genocide in 1971 and which persecutes its minorities relentlessly even now dare speak about intolerance and phobias. The world can see for itself what Pakistan really is,’’ she added.
She said that Pakistan for long hosted Osama Bin Laden and the country's fingerprints are on so many terrorist incidents across the world.
"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 will seek to counter the truth with more lies. Repetition will change nothing. India’s stand is clear and needs no reiteration," she said.
