“We can not and will not allow terrorism to prevail”, said Eenam Gambhir, First Secretary, Permanent Mission of India to the UN.
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Maintaining the tone set by Indian diplomats at the United Nations in the morning, where Pakistan was described as a “host to the Ivy League of terrorism”, the phrase India chose in the evening was the same: India refers to Pakistan as a state that uses terror as an instrument of the state policy.
He said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in his address to the UN General Assembly urged the world body for implementing its resolutions on Kashmir.
India has told Pakistan that it has evidence showing involvement of Pakistan based terrorists in the Uri attack and demanded that Islamabad refrain from supporting and sponsoring terrorism directed against this country. Gambhir added that though Pakistan nuclear proliferation record talked about restraint, renunciation and peace, it was actually marked by “deception and deceit”.
He alleged atrocities in the Kashmir valley and said Pakistan “fully supports the demand of the Kashmiri people for self-determination”. He said the Nepali Prime Minister in his interview was talking of cross border terrorism between India and Nepal and no third party country was referred to in that interview.
“The people of Kashmir have waited 70 years for implementation of this promise”, he said, adding the Security Council must honour its commitments by implementing its own decisions.
Akbar, addressing a press conference moments after Nawaz’s speech at India’s permanent mission, remarked it was very odd that Pakistan had termed the “terrorist” a “hero”.
Kashmir has been divided between India and Pakistan since the end of British rule in 1947.
“The Secretary-General stressed the need for Pakistan and India to address their outstanding issues, including Kashmir, through dialogue in the interest of both countries and the region as a whole”, according to a brief statement by Ban’s spokesperson.
Sharif hailed Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani as the “latest symbol of the Kashmiri intifada (uprising), of a popular and peaceful freedom movement”.
The two neighbours have been at odds since July 8 when a populist Kashmiri rebel leader Burhan Muzaffar Wani was killed by Indian forces.
India today said it hopes that the bill to designate Pakistan as a terrorist state by two United States lawmakers will be treated with utmost seriousness.
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Terrorism is being recognised as a larger regional concern because the global community is also suffering from Pakistan-sponsored terrorism, Swarup added. He then went to make some bold claims: “Pakistan’s Zarb-e-Azb Operation is the largest, most robust and most successful anti-terrorism campaign anywhere in the world, deploying 200,000 of our security forces”.
