UN: India Mocks Pakistan For Jailing PM, Giving Lifetime Immunity To Munir
He was responding to a statement made by Pakistan's Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad who raised the issues of Jammu and Kashmir and the Indus Waters Treaty during an open debate on 'Leadership for Peace'
New Delhi: Delivering a strong response to the usual Pakistani ranting, India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN), Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni, on Monday mocked at Pakistan for its unique way of respecting the will of its people by jailing a Prime Minister, by banning the ruling political party and by letting its armed forces engineer a constitutional coup through the 27th amendment and giving life-time immunity to its Chief of Defence Forces.
He was responding to a statement made by Pakistan's Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad who raised the issues of Jammu and Kashmir and the Indus Waters Treaty during an open debate on 'Leadership for Peace'.
While reiterated that the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are an integral and inalienable part of India and will always remain so, Harish said that Pakistan’s unwarranted reference to Jammu and Kashmir in the open debate attests to its obsessive focus on harming India and its people.
“A serving non-permanent Security Council Member that chooses to further this obsession in all meetings and platforms of the UN in pursuit of its divisive agenda cannot be expected to fulfill its designated responsibilities and obligations,” said ambassador Harish.
He added that India had entered into the Indus Waters Treaty, 65 years ago, in good faith, in a spirit of good will and friendship. However, throughout these six and a half decades, Pakistan has violated the spirit of the Treaty by inflicting three wars and thousands of terror attacks on India, the envoy said.
“In the last four decades, tens of thousands of Indian lives have been lost in Pakistan sponsored terror attacks, the most recent of which was the Pahalgam terror attack in April 2025, which involved religion-based targeted killings of 26 innocent civilians by Pakistan sponsored terrorists. It is in this backdrop that India has finally announced that the Treaty will be held in abeyance until Pakistan, which is a global epi-centre of terror, credibly and irrevocably ends its support for cross-border and all other forms of terrorism,” the ambassador said.
“Pakistan of course has a unique way of respecting the will of its people – by jailing a Prime Minister, by banning the ruling political party and by letting its armed forces engineer a constitutional coup through the 27th amendment and giving life-time immunity to its Chief of Defence Forces. Let me be clear, India will counter Pakistan-sponsored terrorism in all its forms and manifestations with all its might,” Harish added.