United NationsIndia has dismissed Pakistan’s latest provocation at the General Assembly by raising surgical strikes and Kashmir as a waste of time “symbolic of what holds us all back”.
Pakistan permanent representative Maleeha Lodhi’s remarks about India on Tuesday were “a lonely voice from the wilderness”, said Eenam Gambhir, a First Secretary in India’s United Nations Mission.
“My delegation does not wish to waste the precious time of this August Assembly in further engaging with such distractions,” Gambhir said in a short 45-second rejoinder even though she was entitled to 10 minutes to exercise her right of reply.
During the debate in the General Assembly on the annual report on United Nations’s work, Lodhi went off topic and denied that India carried out any surgical strike against Pakistan while accusing New Delhi of trying to provoke a conflict by “falsely” claiming it had carried out the operation and threatening more attacks.
“By making such false claims and blatant threats, are India’s leaders attempting to provoke a conflict with Pakistan,” she asked and added that the threats gave “Pakistan sufficient reason to respond in exercise of its right to self-defense”.
Lodhi’s statement appeared to be a response to Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat’s warning to Islamabad last month around the anniversary of the 2016 surgical strike against terrorists inside Pakistani-held territory who had killed 18 Indian soldiers in a cross-border attack.
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