We always extended friendship to Pak, got Pathankot, Uri in return: Sushma
United Nations: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj tore into Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday while addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York and said that his country must stop dreaming about Kashmir.
"Kashmir is an integral part of India and Pakistan must abandon this dreaming," Swaraj said without mincing words. She went on to attack the country over the recent Uri attack carried out by Pak-based terrorists that claimed 18 lives.
She further lashed out at Sharif, saying the allegations he made against India were baseless. “He alleged that we made preconditions for talks which were not acceptable to him. What preconditions?” she added.
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She said Sharif “must introspect about proliferation of terrorism in his country,” adding that Pakistan has always remain in denial about terrorists in its territory.
She said India always extended a hand of friendship, “but what did we get? Pathankot? Uri? Bahadur Ali?”
Swaraj also raked up the issue of alleged human rights violations in Pakistan’s Balochistan, and said, “The brutality against the Baloch people represents the worst form of state oppression.”
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In a sharp rebuke to Sharif's "tirade" on Kashmir, she said those accusing others of rights violations must introspect as it censured Pakistan for the first time at the UNGA for perpetrating the "worst form of state oppression" in Balochistan.
Swaraj also made a strong pitch for isolating such nations who speak the language of terrorism and for whom sheltering terrorists has become "their calling card".
"There are nations that still speak the language of terrorism, that nurture it, peddle it, and export it," she said. She called for the world to come together and fight terrorism.
“Cannot tackle terrorism by distinguishing between 'your terrorist and my terrorist,’ we have to join as a whole community. If we don’t do it, then we will be held responsible by our children," she said.
She also called for the adoption of Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism to develop norms to prosecute and extradite terrorists.
