Pak’s reaction to Jaishankar admission of terrorism: India

United Nations, Sep 28: India has slammed Pakistan for responding to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s UN General Assembly remarks on terrorism, despite the neighbour not being named, describing Islamabad’s reaction as an admission of its “longstanding practice of cross-border terrorism”.

During his address at the UNGA General Debate on Saturday, Jaishankar, without naming Pakistan, said, “Major international terrorist attacks are traced back to that one country.”

Referring to a “neighbour that is an epicentre of global terrorism”, he said India has confronted the challenge of terrorism since independence. Later in the evening, in its Right of Reply, the Pakistani delegate accused India of attempting to “malign Pakistan” with “malicious accusations” about terrorism, even though Jaishankar had not named the country in his address while talking about the scourge of terrorism.