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India called retired Pakistan’s “long-tainted” grounds of genocidal acts, telling the U.N. Security Council that the country’s inhuman behaviour reflects its attempts implicit decades to externalise interior failures done acts of unit wrong and beyond its border.
Speaking astatine the Annual UNSC Open Debate connected ‘Protection of civilians successful equipped conflict’ connected Wednesday (May 20, 2026), India’s Permanent Representative to the U.N. Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni said, “It is ironic that Pakistan, with its long-tainted grounds of genocidal acts, has chosen to notation to issues that are strictly interior to India.”
Mr. Parvathaneni's remarks came aft Pakistan’s typical raised the contented of Jammu and Kashmir astatine the debate.
Strikes connected Afghanistan
Raising the contented of Pakistan’s strikes connected Afghanistan earlier this year, helium said, “The satellite has not forgotten that it was during the beatified period of Ramadan successful March this year, astatine a clip of peace, reflection, and mercy, that Pakistan conducted a barbaric airstrike connected the Omid Addiction Treatment Hospital successful Kabul.”
He said that according to UNAMA (United Nations Assistance Mission successful Afghanistan), “this cowardly and unconscionable enactment of unit claimed the lives of 269 civilians and injured a further 122 successful a installation which tin by nary means beryllium justified arsenic a subject target.”
Mr. Parvathaneni added that it is “hypocritical” of Pakistan to espouse precocious principles of planetary instrumentality portion "targeting guiltless civilians successful the dark.”
The aerial strikes by Pakistan occurred astatine the decision of tarawih evening prayers, erstwhile galore patients were leaving the masjid, arsenic per UNAMA.
Over 94,000 radical were assessed arsenic displaced owed to cross-border equipped unit perpetrated against Afghan civilians, according to UNAMA.
He said that specified heinous acts of aggression by Pakistan should not travel arsenic a astonishment from a state that “bombs its ain radical and conducts systematic genocide.”
Operation Searchlight
Mr. Parvathaneni said that Pakistan sanctioned the systematic run of genocidal wide rape of 400,000 women citizens by its ain service during Operation Searchlight successful 1971.
Operation Searchlight was the codename the Pakistani Army utilized for its enactment against the Bangladeshi nationalist question successful East Pakistan, present Bangladesh, successful March 1971.
“Such inhuman behaviour reflects Pakistan’s repeated attempts implicit decades to externalise interior failures done progressively hopeless acts of unit some wrong and beyond its borders. With nary faith, nary law, and nary morality, the satellite tin spot done Pakistan’s propaganda,” helium said.
