Pakistan tells UNGA: India's "terrorist exports" have gone from regional to global
Counsellor Saima Saleem used Pakistan's right of reply at the UN General Assembly on Saturday to accuse India of state-sponsored terrorism, citing the Nikhil Gupta case in the US and the Kulbhushan Jadhav conviction.
Pakistan accused India of state-sponsored terrorism at the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday, telling the 81st session’s general debate in New York that India had “elevated propaganda into statecraft, embraced disinformation as diplomacy and exports terrorism as an instrument of policy”.
Counsellor Saima Saleem, of Pakistan’s Mission to the UN, exercised Pakistan’s right of reply after India’s delegate accused Islamabad of spreading “falsehoods” and warned of consequences over what New Delhi described as “terrorism from Pakistan”, following Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s address to the Assembly.
Saleem said New Delhi’s “terrorist exports” had gone from regional to global, pointing to Indian nationals implicated in assassination plots in the United States and Canada. She cited Kulbhushan Jadhav, “a serving Indian naval commander… convicted in Pakistan on terrorism and espionage charges”, and Nikhil Gupta, who pleaded guilty in a Manhattan federal court in February to plotting the murder of Sikh separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun at the direction of a person employed by the Indian government.
“From a serving Indian naval commander, Kulbhushan Jadhav… to Nikhil Gupta… India’s record speaks for itself,” she said, adding that New Delhi “exports terrorism and violence while trying to import victimhood and sympathy”.
Saleem claimed Pakistan had lost nearly 100,000 lives to India-sponsored terrorism and said Islamabad had presented the international community with extensive evidence of India’s financing, aiding and abetting of terrorist groups targeting Pakistani civilians and security personnel.
“Yet, despite its endless lectures to others on terrorism, we are still waiting to hear India unequivocally condemn the terrorist attacks that kill innocent Pakistani civilians,” she added.
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