United Nations: Coming down hard on Pakistan over the remarks of its Foreign Minister on the Jammu and Kashmir issue during a Security Council debate on the Jammu and Kashmir issue, India scoffed at the remark as being even unworthy of a response.
India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj retracted strongly to the remark of Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari dubbing it as politically motivated and utterly baseless. Making it clear that India is dismissing the Pakistan Foreign Minister's remark, she dubbed them as " baseless, politically motivated and frivolous.
" My delegation considers it unworthy to even respond to such malicious and false propaganda," said Kamoj at the UN Security Council open debate on Women, Peace and Security.
"Rather, our focus is where it shall always be positive and forward-looking. Today's discussion is critically important to strengthen our collective efforts to accelerate the full implementation of the Women, Peace and Security agenda. We respect the topic of the debate and recognise the importance of time. As such, our focus shall remain on the topic, added Kamboj.
The development comes in the wake of Zardari's during his comments in the debate referred to Jammu and Kashmir ahead of International Women's Day. India has repeatedly made it clear that the union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh were, are and always will be an integral part of India.
Despite asserting that it is keen on having normal neighbourly ties with Pakistan, India stated that it was up to Pakistan to ensure that terror-free and peaceful for having such bilateral relations. The bilateral ties between the two nuclear-armed neighbours hit a rock bottom after the Indian warplanes bombed a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist training camp at Balakot in Pakistan in February 2019 in retaliation to the terror attack in Pulwama.
The ties between the two countries were further soured following the Indian government's decision abrogate Article 370 and bifurcate Jammu and Kashmir into Union Territories.
