Reacting to Pakistan mentioning Kashmir, Pratik Mathur, minister at India's UN mission, said it "has misused this forum to spread baseless and misleading narratives, which is not a surprise."
"I will not dignify these comments with any response just to save valuable time of this august body," he added witheringly.
Mathur, who did not name Pakistan and referred to it as “a single delegation”, was reacting to Pakistani Permanent Representative Munir Akram's suggestion to create a Security Council body to monitor the implementation of its Kashmir resolutions. .
But the point of her condescending dismissal of him was clear.
Irrespective of the topic under discussion or its relevance, Pakistan constantly mentions Kashmir.
While India directly confronts Pakistan by naming it by exercising its formal right of reply on important issues, New Delhi does not name it on other occasions, such as Tuesday, to deprive Islamabad of the opportunity to prolong the issue, which is ignored by almost all. all. the other 192 members of the UN, but at the same time making a clear rebuttal.
By not being named, Pakistan had no right to respond when it could expand on its statement.
As Kashmir fails to gain support at the UN, Akram repeatedly tries to link it with Palestine – as he did on Tuesday – but to no avail.
For example, at last year's high-level session of the General Assembly, only one country other than Pakistan even mentioned Kashmir, meaning 191 nations ignored it.
Even that was an anodyne comment made in passing by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who simply said that resolving the dispute through dialogue between India and Pakistan “will pave the way for regional peace, stability and prosperity in South Asia.”
Pakistan's own former Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has pathetically admitted Islamabad's failure to garner support for its cause.
"We face a particularly arduous task in trying to put Kashmir at the center of the United Nations agenda," he said at a press conference here last year.
India "strongly opposes and perpetuates a post facto narrative" to exclude Kashmir, he lamented.
India maintains that Kashmir and all disputes between the neighbors are bilateral matters under the 1972 Simla Agreement signed by Bilawal's grandfather Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, then president of Pakistan, and Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
Furthermore, by insisting on the implementation of the Security Council resolution on the Kashmir plebiscite, Islamabad is ignoring a key element that required it to first withdraw from all areas of Kashmir it occupied.
Security Council Resolution 47, adopted on April 21, 1948, requires the Pakistani government to first ensure the withdrawal from the State of Jammu and Kashmir of Pakistani tribesmen and nationals not normally resident there and who have entered the State for the purpose of fighting and to prevent any intrusion into the State by such elements and the provision of material aid to those fighting in the State.
The “tribesmen” referred to in the resolution are Pakistani soldiers sent disguised as tribesmen.
That resolution also demands that Islamabad not finance or arm terrorists who continue attacks in Kashmir, an element that Pakistan ignores.
"I will not dignify these comments with any response just to save valuable time of this august body," he added witheringly.
Mathur, who did not name Pakistan and referred to it as “a single delegation”, was reacting to Pakistani Permanent Representative Munir Akram's suggestion to create a Security Council body to monitor the implementation of its Kashmir resolutions. .
But the point of her condescending dismissal of him was clear.
Irrespective of the topic under discussion or its relevance, Pakistan constantly mentions Kashmir.
While India directly confronts Pakistan by naming it by exercising its formal right of reply on important issues, New Delhi does not name it on other occasions, such as Tuesday, to deprive Islamabad of the opportunity to prolong the issue, which is ignored by almost all. all. the other 192 members of the UN, but at the same time making a clear rebuttal.
By not being named, Pakistan had no right to respond when it could expand on its statement.
As Kashmir fails to gain support at the UN, Akram repeatedly tries to link it with Palestine – as he did on Tuesday – but to no avail.
For example, at last year's high-level session of the General Assembly, only one country other than Pakistan even mentioned Kashmir, meaning 191 nations ignored it.
Even that was an anodyne comment made in passing by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who simply said that resolving the dispute through dialogue between India and Pakistan “will pave the way for regional peace, stability and prosperity in South Asia.”
Pakistan's own former Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has pathetically admitted Islamabad's failure to garner support for its cause.
"We face a particularly arduous task in trying to put Kashmir at the center of the United Nations agenda," he said at a press conference here last year.
India "strongly opposes and perpetuates a post facto narrative" to exclude Kashmir, he lamented.
India maintains that Kashmir and all disputes between the neighbors are bilateral matters under the 1972 Simla Agreement signed by Bilawal's grandfather Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, then president of Pakistan, and Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
Furthermore, by insisting on the implementation of the Security Council resolution on the Kashmir plebiscite, Islamabad is ignoring a key element that required it to first withdraw from all areas of Kashmir it occupied.
Security Council Resolution 47, adopted on April 21, 1948, requires the Pakistani government to first ensure the withdrawal from the State of Jammu and Kashmir of Pakistani tribesmen and nationals not normally resident there and who have entered the State for the purpose of fighting and to prevent any intrusion into the State by such elements and the provision of material aid to those fighting in the State.
The “tribesmen” referred to in the resolution are Pakistani soldiers sent disguised as tribesmen.
That resolution also demands that Islamabad not finance or arm terrorists who continue attacks in Kashmir, an element that Pakistan ignores.
