India used its right of reply to put forth its views on Kashmir and Pakistan’s “flourishing industry producing and exporting global terrorism.”
India on Friday gave a strongly worded reply to Pakistan after its PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi urged the UN to appoint a special envoy for Jammu and Kashmir.
Here’s what India said in its right of reply:
“It is extraordinary that the state which protected Osama Bin Laden and sheltered Mullah Omar should have the gumption to play victim. 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.”
“Pakistan must understand that the state of Jammu and Kashmir is and will always remain an integral part of India. However much it scales up cross border terrorism, it will never succeed in undermining India’s territorial integrity.”
“Even as terrorists thrive in Pakistan and roam its streets with impunity, we have heard it lecture about protection of human rights in India. World does not need lessons on democracy and human rights from a country whose own situation is charitably described as a failed state.”
“‘Terroristan’ is in fact a territory whose contribution to the globalisation of terror is unparalleled. Pakistan can only be counselled to abandon a destructive worldview that has caused grief to the entire world. If it could be persuaded to demonstrate commitment to civilization,order and peace, it may still find some acceptance in comity of nations.”
