Pakistan accuses India of ‘sponsoring terrorism beyond its borders’ durinng UN spat
ISLAMABAD: A senior Pakistani diplomat at the United Nations this week responded to India’s allegations that its neighboring country was a “terrorist epicenter,” accusing Delhi of sponsoring cross-border “terrorism” as the war of words between the two nations at the global platform worsened.
India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, during his UN General Assembly speech on Saturday, said his country had a neighbor that was the “epicenter of global terrorism,” without naming Pakistan.
His statement came after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s UNGA speech on Friday, in which he offered talks to India. However, the Pakistani prime minister blamed India for seeking to “extract political gains” from a militant attack in Indian-administered Kashmir’s Pahalgam, which killed 26 tourists in April.
India had blamed Pakistan for the attack, a charge denied by Islamabad. The incident triggered a four-day military conflict between the neighbors that saw over 70 killed on both sides of the border before they agreed to a ceasefire on May 10.
