New Delhi/New York: After Pakistan PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi raked up the Kashmir issue at the UN General Assembly, India hit out at the United Nations on Friday, describing it as “Terroristan” and a land of “pure terror” that hosts a flourishing industry to produce and export global terror as well as a “failed state”.
In a no-holds-barred speech at the General Assembly, Ms Eenam Gambhir, the first secretary at India’s permanent mission to the UN, said: “It is extraordinary that the state which protected terrorist Osama bin Laden and sheltered Mullah Omar should have the gumption to play victim.”
The India-Pakistan clash at the United Nations is one more instance of the rock-bottom ties between the two countries.
New Delhi also reminded the world of how UN-designated terror outfit Lashkar-e-Tayyaba chief Hafiz Saeed was being allowed to float a political party in that country.
‘Pakistan helping ultras with political career’
After India’s reply, Pakistan too hit back, saying national security adviser Ajit Doval’s “offensive defence and double squeeze” strategy to make India a regional hegemon would never succeed.
Earlier, Pakistan PM Abbasi also accused India of indulging in terror activities and warned of a “matching response” if it “ventures across the LoC” or acts upon its “doctrine of limited war against Pakistan”. He urged the UN to appoint a special envoy to Kashmir, claiming that the struggle of the people in the region was being “brutally suppressed” by India.
But soundly blasting Pakistan at the UN, Ms Gambhir said: “In its short history, Pakistan has become a geography synonymous with terror. The quest for a land of the pure has actually produced ‘the land of pure terror’. Pakistan is now ‘Terroristan’, with a flourishing industry producing and exporting global terrorism... Terroristan is in fact a territory whose contribution to the globalisation of terror is unparalleled.”
She added: “Its current state can be gauged from the fact that Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, a leader of the UN-designated terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, is now sought to be legitimised as a leader of a political party.”
Blasting Pakistan, a furious India further said: “This is a country whose counter-terrorism policy is to mainstream and upstream terrorists by either providing safe havens to global terror leaders in its military town, or protecting them with political careers.”
