Live
- CERT-In Warns iPhone Users: Update to iOS 18.1.1 Now to Avoid Hacking
- Rana Daggubati’s Show gets huge applause at 55th IFFI
- Jana Sena MLA Pulaparthi Ramanjaneyulu Elected as PAC chairman
- Stage set for counting of votes for Jharkhand Assembly elections
- MLA Sri Ganesh Engages ASHA Workers and Resource Persons in Caste Census Meeting
- Supreme Court verdict on validity of Preamble modification in 1976 likely on November 25
- ‘Zebra’ movie review: A gripping tale of banking fraud and redemption
- Saurabh Netravalkar, Unmukt Chand, Dwayne Smith and Rahkeem Cornwall headline USPL
- NPP asks members not to attend meeting called by Biren govt
- Bulls roar on Dalal Street, Sensex and Nifty up over 2 pc
Pakistan is arsonist disguising itself as fire-fighter
First secretary Sneha Dubey responding to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's speech at the UNGA
Young IFS officer tears into Pak PM Imran Khan at UNGA
New York: Pakistan, where terrorists enjoy free pass, is an "arsonist" disguising itself as a "fire-fighter", and the entire world has suffered because of its policies as the country nurtures terrorists in its backyard, India has said in a blistering retort after Prime Minister Imran Khan raked up the issue of Kashmir in his address to the UN General Assembly.
"We exercise our Right of Reply to one more attempt by the leader of Pakistan to tarnish the image of this august Forum by bringing in matters internal to my country, and going so far as to spew falsehoods on the world stage," First Secretary Sneha Dubey said in the UN General Assembly on Friday.
"While such statements deserve our collective contempt and sympathy for the mindset of the person who utters falsehood repeatedly, I am taking the floor to set the record straight," the young Indian diplomat said, slamming the Pakistani leader for raking up the Kashmir issue in his address to the 76th session of the UN General Assembly.
"We keep hearing that Pakistan is a 'victim of terrorism'. This is the country which is an arsonist disguising itself as a fire-fighter. Pakistan nurtures terrorists in their backyard in the hope that they will only harm their neighbours. Our region, and in fact the entire world, has suffered because of their policies. On the other hand, they are trying to cover up sectarian violence in their country as acts of terror," Sneha Dubey said.
Imran Khan in his address had spoken about the August 5, 2019 decision of the Indian government on the abrogation of Article 370 as well as the death of pro-Pakistan separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani.
In the Right of Reply, Sneha Dubey strongly reiterated that the entire Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh "were, are and will always be an integral and inalienable part of India. This includes the areas that are under the illegal occupation of Pakistan. We call upon Pakistan to immediately vacate all areas under its illegal occupation." Mr. Khan and other Pakistani leaders and diplomats have consistently raked up the issue of Jammu and Kashmir and other internal matters of India in their addresses to the UN General Assembly and other forums of the world organisation.
