India reacted sharply on Thursday by declaring his speech as “non-factual”.
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Gambhir also said that if acts of terrorism are practiced as state policy, they are nothing less than war crimes.
Reacting to Sharif’s remarks, Vikas Swarup, spokesperson for India’s Ministry of External Affairs, tweeted: “PM Sharif at UNGA says India poses unacceptable conditions to dialogue”.
India and Pakistan signed the Indus Waters Treaty, brokered by the World Bank, in 1960. Pakistan has given shelter to terrorists.
Causing another major embarrassment for Pakistan, the US Secretary of State John Kerry has asked the alleged sponsors of the Uri terror attack to take action against the perpetrators and snubbed its rant for Kashmir, giving India the much needed support for isolating Pakistan internationally.
The Bill was introduced in the US House of Representatives on Wednesday to designate Pakistan a state sponsor of terrorism.
He, nevertheless, said talks between the two nations could not succeed till resolution of the Kashmir issue.
“No one, and I mean no other country, at the United Nations has spoken on the subject Nawaz Sharif devoted 80 per cent of his time to”, Swarup said. On the contrary, Swarup said that everyone talked about terrorism as a growing menace.
“Pakistan is a problem for the whole world”. “Terrorism in now a global phenomenon which must be addressed comprehensively, in all its form including state terrorism”, said the prime minister.
Activists of India’s Hindu Sena party burn an effigy of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as they protest against the September 19 attack at an Indian army base in Kashmir.
“Is it not a fact that the masterminds of the 26/11 Mumbai Attack, Udhampur, Gurdaspur, Pathankot, Pampore and Uri attacks operate from Pakistani soil with complete impunity”, he questioned. Sharif, however, did not make any mention of the Uri terror attack.
Indian and Pakistani forces have been engaged in clashes in the disputed valley over the past months and accused each other of provocation.
Eenam Gambhir, India’s envoy to the United Nations, responded critically to Sharif’s speech: “It is ironical.that we have seen today the preaching of human rights and ostensible support for self-determination by a country which has established itself as the global epicenter for terrorism”. Instead they are willing to share the finger prints of the terrorists with them so that they can check their database to ascertain that the terrorists belonged to Pakistan.
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“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.
