India’s harsh reply to Pakistan PM’s UNGA remarks: ‘A country that claims to desire peace will never shelter the masterminds of the Mumbai terror assault.’

In a solid response to Pakistan, India stated at the UN General Assembly that a country that claims to seek peace with its neighbors would never sponsor cross-border terrorism, nor would it shelter planners of the horrific Mumbai terrorist attack, disclosing their existence only under pressure from the international community.

On Friday, India used the UN General Assembly’s Right of Reply to fire back at Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who had raised the topic of Jammu and Kashmir during his address to the high-level General Debate earlier in the day.

“It is regretful that the Prime Minister of Pakistan has used the platform of this august assembly to make baseless accusations against India,” said Mijito Vinito, First Secretary in India’s Permanent Mission to the UN.

“He has done so to conceal wrongdoing in his nation and to justify actions against India that the rest of the world finds intolerable,” the young Indian ambassador added.

Sharif emphasized Pakistan’s desire for peace with India in his speech but added that long-term, permanent peace can only be “assured and guaranteed” by resolving the Kashmir problem through UN Charter and Security Council decisions.

India answered that a “polity that claims to desire peace with its neighbors would never finance cross-border terrorism, nor would it shelter the masterminds of the horrible Mumbai terrorist attack, admitting their existence only under international pressure.”