'Jailed Imran Khan, granted lifetime immunity to Asim Munir': India rips into Pakistan at UN

New Delhi: India came down heavily upon Pakistan for its "unwarranted reference to Jammu and Kashmir and its claims over the Union territory at UNSC and reiterated that UTs Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are and will remain " anintegral and inalienable part of India".

Speaking at the UNSC open debate on Leadership for Peace, India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni slammed Islamabad for harbouring terrorism and said that tens of thousands of Indian lives have been lost due to Pakistan-sponsored terror attacks in the last four decades. He also invoked the April 22 terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam in which 26 civilians were killed.

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Why India ended IWT

Explaining India's decision to end the Indus Waters Treaty, he called Pakistan "the global epicentre of terror" and said, "India had entered into the Indus Waters Treaty, 65 years ago, in good faith, in a spirit of good will and friendship. Throughout these six and a half decades, Pakistan has violated the spirit of the Treaty by inflicting three wars and thousands of terror attacks on India."

"It is in this backdrop that India has finally announced that the Treaty will be held in abeyance until Pakistan, which is a global epicentre of terror, credibly and irrevocably ends its support for cross-border and all other forms of terrorism," he stressed.

India mocks Pak's political situation 

The Indian envoy also took a swipe at Pakistan over its political situation at the UNSC, saying that the country jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan and engineered a "constitutional coup" to grant lifetime immunity to its Chief of Defence Forces, Asim Munir.

"Pakistan, of course, has a unique way of respecting the will of its people - by jailing a Prime Minister, by banning the ruling political party and by letting its armed forces engineer a constitutional coup through the 27th amendment and giving lifetime immunity to its Chief of Defence Forces," Parvathaneni said.

He asserted that India will counter Pakistan-sponsored terrorism in "all its forms and manifestations with all its might"