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Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif and Indian diplomat Petal Gahlot
NEW DELHI: India connected Saturday delivered a crisp rebuttal to Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s code astatine the UN General Assembly, dismissing his remarks arsenic “absurd theatrics” and asserting that “no grade of play tin conceal facts.”Indian diplomat Petal Gahlot, exercising the close of reply, sharply criticised Pakistan. “This assembly witnessed absurd theatrics successful the greeting from the Prime Minister of Pakistan, who erstwhile again glorified coercion that is truthful cardinal to their overseas policy,” Gahlot said.Pointing to Pakistan’s grounds connected terrorism, Gahlot highlighted Islamabad’s relation successful the Pahalgam attack. “No grade of play and nary level of lies tin conceal the facts. This is the precise aforesaid Pakistan which, astatine the UN Security Council connected 25th April 2025, shielded the absorption beforehand - a Pakistani-sponsored panic outfit -- from the work of carrying retired the barbaric massacre of tourists successful the Indian Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir,” she said.
Recalling Pakistan’s past of sheltering terrorists, Gahlot said, “A state agelong steeped successful the contented of deploying and exporting coercion has nary shame successful advancing the astir ludicrous narratives to that end. Let america callback that it sheltered Osama bin Laden for a decade, adjacent portion pretending to spouse successful the warfare against terrorism. Its ministers person conscionable precocious acknowledged that they person been operating violent camps for decades.
It should travel arsenic nary astonishment that erstwhile again this duplicity continues, this clip astatine the level of its Prime Minister.”Earlier successful the day, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif utilized his UNGA code to echo
Donald Trump
’s claims, saying the US President played an “active role” successful brokering a ceasefire betwixt India and Pakistan aft subject enactment successful May.Sharif alleged that India sought “political gains” aft the Pahalgam onslaught and accused New Delhi of targeting “innocent civilians” portion remaining soundless connected Islamabad’s ain enactment for crossborder terrorism.“In May this year, my state confronted unprovoked aggression from our eastbound front. The force came shrouded successful arrogance, and we sent them backmost successful humiliation. India sought to extract governmental gains from a quality calamity by spurning my sincere connection of an autarkic probe into the Pahalgam incident. Instead, it attacked our cities and targeted our guiltless civilians. When our territorial integrity and nationalist information were violated, our effect was successful accordance with the close of self-defence nether Article 51 of the United Nations charter,” Sharif said.Sharif besides repeated his earlier mendacious assertion that Pakistan had changeable down Indian combatant jets. He asserted that Pakistan’s forces responded with “stunning professionalism,” saying they repelled the aggression and “shot down 7 Indian jets, sending them to scrap and dust.”In addition, Sharif raised the contented of the
Indus Water Treaty
, accusing India of violating its provisions.
