ISLAMABAD: Pakistan delivered a sharp rebuttal to statements by India’s UN representative, accusing New Delhi of state-sponsored violence and of using the United Nations platform to conceal its actions in Kashmir and beyond.
In this regard, during the 80th session of the UN General Assembly, Pakistan’s Consular Mission member Saima Saleem challenged the Indian envoy’s statements and set out Islamabad’s account of recent events.
“Mr. President, we are compelled to respond to a country that cannot decide whether to wear the mask of the world’s largest democracy or to reveal itself as the world’s largest factory of falsehoods,” she said in a measured but forceful address.
Furthermore, Saleem accused India of sponsoring terrorism both domestically and across borders, naming proxy groups she said operate with New Delhi’s support.
She said attacks linked to those proxies have claimed thousands of innocent lives in Pakistan and targeted places of worship, schools and workplaces.
In this regard, the recent incident that has drawn international attention, Saleem said Pakistan condemned the initial attack and demanded “independent, neutral and transparent” investigations a demand she argued India has resisted.
She told the UN that despite calls for restraint and diplomacy from the international community,
India carried out what Islamabad describes as “unjustified aggression” against Pakistan between May 7 and May 10, 2025, resulting in civilian casualties.
In this sense, Saleem further criticised New Delhi’s record on minority rights and domestic governance, citing communal violence in Gujarat, Delhi and Manipur as examples of systematic discrimination and institutionalised Islamophobia.
She also alleged that India has weaponised water by suspending the Indus Waters Treaty, accusing New Delhi of threatening the water security of Pakistan’s 240 million people.
As far as Kashmir is concerned, Saleem reasserted Pakistan’s position that the dispute remains unresolved and must be settled in accordance with UN Security Council resolutions through a free and impartial plebiscite under UN supervision.
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She accused India of deploying nearly 900,000 security personnel in the region and of implementing measures that, she said, amount to demographic engineering and severe human-rights abuses since August 2019.
