At UN, Pakistani diplomat slams India’s attempt to malign Pakistan, calls it serial perpetrator of terrorism
United Nations: Pakistan took strong exception when India called it “Terroristan” at the United Nations, saying that the attempt to distort the country’s name was “utterly shameful” and petty.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Pakistani diplomat Muhammad Rashid addressing the United Nations General Assembly, that saw a fiery clash between the two South Asian neighbours, the second in the current session, said: “It is utterly shameful that India stoops so low as to distort the very name of a country, a member of the United Nations.”
Muhammad Rashid, a second secretary at the Pakistani Mission to the UN, was exercising his right of reply to his Indian counterpart, Rentala Srinivas, who accused Pakistan of promoting terrorism, saying, “No arguments or untruths can ever whitewash the crimes of Terroristan.”
Hitting back at India, the Pakistani diplomat said, “Resorting to mockery of a sovereign nation-state’s name is not just undignified, it is also a deliberate attempt to malign and insult entire people.
“This is not a local political congregation”, Rashid told the 193-member Assembly. “By engaging in this kind of rhetoric, India diminishes its own credibility, showing the world that it has no substantive argument to offer—only, I am sorry to say, cheap slurs which are not worthy of serious discourse.”
“Such language reflects neither maturity nor responsibility. Instead, it exposes that India is frustrated and reveals its pettiness on the world stage,” he added.
