Blitz Bureau
NEW DELHI:In a strong and stinging rebuttal to Pakistan at the United Nations Security Council Open Debate, India served a notice to Pakistan that it will not tolerate Islamabad’s terrorism and will counter it “with all its might”.
“Let me be clear: India will counter Pakistan-sponsored terrorism in all its forms and manifestations with all its might,” India’s Permanent Representative P. Harish said sternly on December 15.
Reacting to Pakistan’s Permanent Representative Asim Iftikhar Ahmad taking a huge detour from the topic of Security Council debate, ‘Leadership for Peace’, to talk about the Indus Water Treaty, Harish said it “will be held in abeyance until Pakistan, which is a global epi-centre of terror, credibly and irrevocably ends its support for cross-border and all other forms of terrorism”. India put the treaty on hold because of Pakistan’s terrorism and wars that killed tens of thousands of Indians, he said.
“India had entered into the Indus Waters Treaty, 65 years ago, in good faith, in a spirit of goodwill and friendship,” he said. “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”. The Pahalgam terror attack in April, during which Pakistan-sponsored terrorists carried out “religionbased targeted killings of 26 innocent civilians”, was the most recent. The attack in which Hindus and a Christian were slaughtered was the last straw, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that he was suspending the 1960 treaty signed by then-Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for sharing river waters with Pakistan.
Harish ridiculed Pakistan for obsessively bringing up issues extraneous to topics under discussion at the UN. Akram’s “unwarranted reference to Jammu and Kashmir in today’s open debate attests to its obsessive focus on harming India and its people,” he said. “A serving non-permanent Security Council Member that chooses to further this obsession in all meetings and platforms of the UN in pursuit of its divisive agenda cannot be expected to fulfil its designated responsibilities and obligations,” he added.
