IndiaToday.in | Edited by Dev Goswami and Shashank Shantanu
New Delhi, September 22, 2017 | UPDATED 08:52 IST
Responding to Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi's charge that India was supporting terrorism against his country, India gave a befitting reply at the UN General Assembly session describing the neighbouring nation as 'terroristan'.
India's First Secretary to the United Nations Eenam Gambhir.Hitting back sharply at Pakistan at the United Nations, New Delhi slammed Islamabad for being "synonymous with terrorism".
Making use of its right-to-reply, India's First Secretary to the United Nations, Eenam Gambhir said, "Pakistan has become terroristan".
Gambhir was responding to Pakistan Prime Minster Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, who earlier in the day accused India of committing "war crimes" and even "sponsoring terrorism."
"In its short history, Pakistan has become a geography synonymous with terror. The quest for a land of pure has actually produced "the land of pure terror". Pakistan is now 'Terroristan', with a flourishing industry producing and exporting global terrorism," Gambhir said.
"Its current state can be gauged from the fact that Hafiz Mohammed Saeed a leader of the UN designated terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba, is now sought to be legitimised as a leader of a political party," she added referring to Saeed, who masterminded the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, launching a new political party - Milli Muslim League (MML) . Saeed has already announced that MML will contest the 2018 general elections in Pakistan.
PAKISTAN SINGS THE JADED K-TUNE
Pakistan has become of the victim of "India's campaign of subversion and state-sponsored terrorism", country's Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi had said during his speech, in which he also called on the UN to send an inquiry commission "to verify the nature and extent of India's human rights violations, secure the punishment of those responsible and provide justice and relief to the victims."
In his maiden UNGA address , Abbasi went on to claim that Pakistan was a victim of "India's campaign of subversion and state-sponsored terrorism" and alleged that India was responsible for constantly violating the ceasefire along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.
Abbasi did add that Islamabad was open to resuming a "comprehensive dialogue" with India on all issues, including Kashmir but claimed that New Delhi was "unwilling" to resume the peace process.
Abbasi also brought up the topic of pellet guns used by Indian security forces to control rioting mobs in the Valley. "Shotgun pellets have blinded and maimed thousands of Kashmiris including children. These and other brutalities clearly constitute war crimes and violate the Geneva Conventions," Abbasi said.
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