
Siddhant Sibbal
Slamming Pakistan foreign minister's United Nation General Assembly (UNGA) Speech, India has rejected the baseless allegations levelled by him and has said that "new Pakistan is cast in the same mould."
Indian diplomat Eenam Gambhir said, " we have heard are fake allegations and fake facts, which can only make for a fake vision."
India thrashed Pakistan for linking it with 2014 Peshawar school attack in which 132 children died. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan took responsibility for the attack.
Call it a "preposterous allegation" India said, "despicable insinuation made by the Foreign Minister of Pakistan dishonours the memory of the innocent lives lost to terrorists on that day."
Calling it a "desperate attempt to look away from the monster of terror" that Pakistan has itself created in its "quest to destabilize its neighbours and covet their territory."
Pakistan's foreign minister during his UNGA speech had held India responsible for the attack saying that it had "links with terrorists supported by India."
Back then India saw a major outpouring of support. Both houses of India's Parliament had expressed solidarity while paying respect to the memory of those killed. Schools all over India had observed two minutes of silence in their memory.
Pakistan's FM raked up Kashmir and even did a special briefing after his UNGA speech in which he was critical of India.
India also questioned the human rights track record of Pakistan and highlighted how Atif Mian was removed from the economic advisory council since he is an Ahmadiyya.
Atif Mian is a Pakistani-American economist and the first person of Pakistani origin to rank among the top 25 young economists of the world was removed from Economic Advisory Council of Pakistan by the new Imran Khan govt after pressure from the right-wing extremist group.
But the main focus remained on terrorism with India asking why 26/11 mastermind and "UN-designated terrorist Hafiz Saeed enjoys a free run inside Pakistan and spews venom and sets up candidates for electoral office?"
India gave the rationale of why it cancelled meet with Islamabad on the sidelines of UNGA saying, "for India every loss of life counts. Hence our belief that talks and terror cannot go together."
Pakistan's PM Imran Khan had proposed a meet foreign ministers meet on the sidelines of UNGA. Initially, India accepted it but later cancelled if after it said Pakistan based proxies had killed 3 of its jawans.