India on Saturday gave a strong feedback to the Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi for alleging that New Delhi was involved in the Peshawar school terror attack in 2014. India First Secretary in Permanent Mission of India to UN — Eenam Gambhir — quashed the allegations and said that statement by Pakistan is “most outrageous and preposterous allegation.”
Gambhir exercised the right to reply at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and said, as quoted by NDTV, “Let me recollect for Pakistan’s new government, the out-pouring of sorrow and pain in India that followed the massacre of innocent school children. India’s parliament had expressed solidarity while paying respect to the memory of those killed. Schools all over India had observed two minutes silence in their memory.”
Though Pakistan’s EAM had claimed that they are doing everything to fight terrorism, Gambhir said, “Can Pakistan deny that it’s the host and patron of 132 of the UN designated terrorists, 22 terrorist entities sanctioned under the 1267 and 1988 UN Security Council Sanctions Regime as of today?”
Not only Gambhir’s reply was facts-based, but also, she proved India’s point that mastermind of 26/11 terrorist attack — Hafiz Saeed, a UN designated terrorist — has a free-run in Pakistan. She said, “Pakistan must demonstrate that it has moved beyond the narrative of distortion, deception and deceit.”
The First Secretary even slammed Qureshi, where he blamed India for cancelling talks the between the foreign ministers of the two countries and reiterated India’s stand — ‘talks and terror can’t go together’. The diplomat said, “The new Foreign Minister chose to term the gruesome killing our security personnel by Pakistani sponsored terrorists as flimsy grounds. While it may not be the case for Pakistan but for India every loss of life counts. India believes talks and terror can’t go together.”
Congratulating the First Secretary, India’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations — Sayed Akbaruddin — took to Twitter and wrote about Gambhir’s strong fact-check reply to the Pakistan EAM.
Adding on, Gambhir reminded Pakistan once again that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India and will remain to be until infinity. She said, “Let me make it clear to the new government of Pakistan that the entire state of Jammu and Kashmir is and will remain an integral part of India.” At the UNGA, Gambhir pointed out that Pakistan old rhetoric has not changed with the change in regime.
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