GG News Bureau
New York, 26th June: India has issued a scathing rebuttal to Pakistan at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), accusing it of misusing the international platform to deflect attention from its own human rights violations and state-sponsored cross-border terrorism.
During the UNSC’s open debate on Children and Armed Conflict (CAC), India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish, strongly condemned Islamabad’s attempts to malign India and disrupt the Council’s focus.
“Pakistan is casting unwarranted aspersions over UN processes and smearing India at various discussions to pursue its nefarious agenda,” said Mr. Harish. He added that such attempts are aimed at diverting global attention from the atrocities committed against children within Pakistan, as documented in the UN Secretary-General’s recent CAC report.
India referred to Pakistan as “one of the grave violators of the CAC agenda”, citing its systemic abuse of children, and the fallout of its military operations in the border areas of Afghanistan, where several Afghan children have been victims of cross-border shelling and air strikes by Pakistani forces.
Citing the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, where 26 Indian tourists were killed by Pakistani or Pakistan-trained terrorists, the Indian envoy reminded the Council of the April 25 UNSC press statement, which called for accountability of those responsible for the attack. “The world has not forgotten the savage targeted attacks by Pakistani and Pakistani-trained terrorists,” Mr. Harish said.
Reaffirming India’s zero-tolerance policy towards terrorism, Ambassador Harish highlighted the retaliatory Operation Sindoor conducted on May 7. “India undertook non-escalatory, proportionate, and focused attacks targeting nine terrorist infrastructure sites,” he noted, adding that those killed in the strikes were honoured with state funerals in Pakistan — further underlining Islamabad’s state patronage of terrorism.
Quoting from the Secretary-General’s CAC report, Harish pointed to alarming violations against children in Pakistan, including attacks on girls’ schools and health workers. The report also detailed the deaths and injuries of Afghan children caused by Pakistani military actions in border regions.
Ambassador Harish also drew attention to the Pakistani army’s shelling of Indian border villages in May 2025, which led to civilian casualties. “To preach at this body after such behaviour is grossly hypocritical,” he remarked.
Concluding his statement, the Indian envoy firmly asserted, “The entire Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has been, is, and will always be an integral and inalienable part of India, irrespective of the frequent, incessant spate of lies and falsehoods by Pakistan.”
