India creating IT network all across the world, Pakistan Haqqani network: Sushma Swaraj at UNGA
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Updated: Sep 23, 2017, 09.57 PM IST
NEW DELHI: A day after India bashed Pakistan at UN terming it 'Terroristan', External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today asked Pakistan's leaders to introspect as to why India is recognised as a global IT superpower while Pakistan is infamous as the "pre-eminent export factory for terror".
Addressing the 72nd UN General Assembly for the second consecutive time, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said: "India is fighting against poverty, but Pakistan is fighting against India through spreading terror.
Replying to Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi's allegation that India is violating human rights, Swaraj accused Pakistan of waging a war against India and said a country that has been the world's greatest exporter of havoc, death and inhumanity became a champion of hypocrisy by preaching about humanity from this podium.
Swaraj said Pakistan is responsible for no bilateral talks and not India.
"I would like to tell Pakistan's politicians that perhaps the wisest thing they could do is to look within," she said
"I want to ask Pakistan that India and Pakistan became independent together but India is today known as IT super power, and Pakistan is recognised only as the export factory for terror," Swaraj asks in her fiery speech.
"We established scientific and technical institutions like IITs & IIMs which are the pride of the world. But what has Pakistan offered to the world and indeed to its own people apart from terrorism?" she said.
"We produced scientists, scholars, doctors, engineers. What have you produced? You have produced terrorists...you have created terrorist camps, you have created Lashkar-e- Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Hizbul Mujahideen and Haqqani network," she said, adding that if Pakistan had spent on its development what it has spent on developing terror, both Pakistan and the world would be safer and better-off today.
Describing terrorism as an "existentialist danger" to mankind, Swaraj wondered how the international community will fight the menace if the UN Security Council cannot agree on the listing of terrorists.
Yesterday, India said Pakistan has become synonymous with terror.
"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," India said.
India also exposed Pakistan by citing Hafiz Mohammed Saeed's recent move to contest polls there. "Its current state can be gauged from the fact that Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, a leader of the UN designated terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba, is now sought to be legitimized as a leader of a political party," India has said.
India also said that it does not need a lesson on human rights from a failed state.
Addressing the 72nd UN General Assembly for the second consecutive time, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said: "India is fighting against poverty, but Pakistan is fighting against India through spreading terror.
Replying to Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi's allegation that India is violating human rights, Swaraj accused Pakistan of waging a war against India and said a country that has been the world's greatest exporter of havoc, death and inhumanity became a champion of hypocrisy by preaching about humanity from this podium.
Swaraj said Pakistan is responsible for no bilateral talks and not India.
"I would like to tell Pakistan's politicians that perhaps the wisest thing they could do is to look within," she said
"I want to ask Pakistan that India and Pakistan became independent together but India is today known as IT super power, and Pakistan is recognised only as the export factory for terror," Swaraj asks in her fiery speech.
"We established scientific and technical institutions like IITs & IIMs which are the pride of the world. But what has Pakistan offered to the world and indeed to its own people apart from terrorism?" she said.
"We produced scientists, scholars, doctors, engineers. What have you produced? You have produced terrorists...you have created terrorist camps, you have created Lashkar-e- Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Hizbul Mujahideen and Haqqani network," she said, adding that if Pakistan had spent on its development what it has spent on developing terror, both Pakistan and the world would be safer and better-off today.
Describing terrorism as an "existentialist danger" to mankind, Swaraj wondered how the international community will fight the menace if the UN Security Council cannot agree on the listing of terrorists.
Yesterday, India said Pakistan has become synonymous with terror.
"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," India said.
India also exposed Pakistan by citing Hafiz Mohammed Saeed's recent move to contest polls there. "Its current state can be gauged from the fact that Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, a leader of the UN designated terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba, is now sought to be legitimized as a leader of a political party," India has said.
India also said that it does not need a lesson on human rights from a failed state.
