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India has hit out at Pakistan after Islamabad’s UN envoy claimed to have given a statement in a Security Council meeting, which is not open to non-Council members. India said that the biggest sponsor of cross-border terrorism was now trying to masquerade as a victim. Calling Pakistan’s assertion that it had been a target of cross-border terrorism for decades a lie, India said, a lie repeated a hundred times would not become the truth.
India’s Permanent Mission to the UN said yesterday that the Pakistan Mission falsely claimed that its UN envoy Munir Akram gave a statement at a Security Council debate on Report of the Secretary General on Threats to International Peace and Security posed by Terrorism Actions. The Security Council meeting was not open to non-members of the Council. India’s Mission to the UN said in a Twitter post that nation fails to comprehend where exactly did the Permanent Representative of Pakistan make his statement since the Security Council session was not open to non-members of the Security Council. It said the five big lies of Pakistan lies are now exposed.
On Pakistan’s UN envoy’s claim that country has decimated Al-Qaeda from the region, India said that perhaps the Permanent Representative of Pakistan was not aware that Osama bin Laden was hiding in their own country in plain sight, and that it was the U.S. forces which got him inside Pakistan.
New Delhi termed Pakistan’s claim that India had hired terrorists as mercenaries as laughable. India said the claim is preposterous coming from a country that is a known sponsor of cross-border terrorism. India also said that Pakistan was home to the largest number of terrorists proscribed by the UN and many of the sanctioned terrorists and entities continue to operate with impunity inside Pakistan. Terming the Pakistan statement regarding Indian nationals being on the 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions List of the UN Security Council, India said the Sanctions List was public and the world could see none of those individuals were in it.
In a strong response to Islamabad raking up the issue of Jammu and Kashmir in the remarks it falsely said Mr. Akram made to the Council, India said Pakistan makes ridiculous assertions about its internal affairs. India said Pakistan consistently rakes up the issue of Jammu and Kashmir and other internal matters of the country at various UN fora in its bid to internationalise the issue but has repeatedly failed to get any support from the broader UN membership for its agenda.