Rejecting Pakistan Foreign Minister Mehmood Shah Qureshi’s statement against India at the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Eenam Gambhir, India’s first Secretary in Permanent Mission of India to UN, has said, “New Pakistan cast in the mold of the old.”
Gambhir, in the UNGA general debate, called out Pakistan’s baseless allegations leveled against India while saying that New Delhi orchestrated terror activities in Islamabad.
Referring to Qureshi’s statement where he alleged India’s involvement in the 2014 Peshawar school attack, the Indian diplomat said, ‘Among the most outrageous was the preposterous allegation relating to the horrific terror attack on a Peshawar school four years ago. Let me recollect for the new government of Pakistan the outpouring of sorrow and pain in India that followed the massacre of innocent in 2014. Both houses of India’s parliament had expressed solidarity while paying respect to the memory of those killed.”
She further asserted that these allegations are a part of Pakistan’s attempt to look away from the ‘monster of terror’ that it has itself created to “destabilize its neighbors and covet their territory.”
Aiming at Pakistan’s claim of fighting terrorism, India asked Pakistan to deny being the host and patron of 132 of the UN-designated terrorists and 22 terrorist entities under the 1267 and the 1988 UN Security Council sanctions regime.
Gambhir also questioned the freedom experienced by UN-designated terrorist Hafiz Saeed’s in Pakistan as he continued to set up candidates for electoral office.
“Pakistan must demonstrate that it has moved beyond a narrative of distortion, deception and deceit,” Gambhir added.