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In a strongly-worded retort successful the UNSC, India said it is not mean to tolerate Pakistan’s continued usage of coercion arsenic an instrumentality of authorities policy, arsenic New Delhi deed backmost astatine Islamabad’s envoy for advancing a “false and self-serving” relationship of Operation Sindoor.
India’s Permanent Representative to the U.N., Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish, delivered a crisp effect to comments made by Pakistan’s Ambassador to the U.N., Asim Iftikhar Ahmad.
Mr. Ahmad spoke astir Operation Sindoor, Jammu and Kashmir and the Indus Waters Treaty successful his remarks astatine the U.N. Security Council unfastened statement connected Monday (January 26, 2026) connected ‘Reaffirming International Rule of Law: Pathways to Reinvigorating Peace, Justice, and Multilateralism.’
Mr. Harish said Pakistan, an elected subordinate of the Security Council, has a single-point docket — to harm India and its people.
With Mr. Ahmad telling the Council that Pakistan’s effect to Operation Sindoor “established that determination tin beryllium nary ‘new normal’ based connected coercion oregon impunity”, Delhi slammed Islamabad, with Mr. Harish asserting that coercion tin ne'er beryllium normalised arsenic Pakistan wishes to do.
“We person heard speech from the Representative of Pakistan astir the caller normal. Let maine reiterate again that coercion tin ne'er beryllium normalised arsenic Pakistan wishes to do. It is not mean to tolerate Pakistan’s continued usage of coercion arsenic an instrumentality of authorities policy,” Mr. Harish said, adding that India volition bash immoderate is required to support and guarantee the information and information of its citizens.
“This hallowed enclosure cannot go a forum for Pakistan to legitimise terrorism,” Mr. Harish said.
Mr. Harish said Pakistan’s envoy “advanced a mendacious and self-serving account” of Operation Sindoor, launched by India successful May past year, targeting panic infrastructure successful Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir successful retaliation for the April 22 Pahalgam onslaught that killed 26 civilians.
“The facts connected this substance are clear. Pakistan-sponsored terrorists killed 26 guiltless civilians successful a brutal onslaught successful Pahalagam successful April 2025. This august assemblage itself called for holding the perpetrators, organisers, financiers and sponsors of this reprehensible enactment of coercion accountable and brought to justice. That is precisely what we did,” Mr. Harish said.
Mr. Harish’s notation was to the property connection issued by the Security Council successful April past year.
In the connection successful which the 15-nation assemblage had condemned successful the strongest presumption the violent onslaught successful Pahalgam and had “underlined the request to clasp perpetrators, organisers, financiers and sponsors of this reprehensible enactment of coercion accountable and bring them to justice”, with the Council stressing that those liable for these killings should beryllium held accountable.
Mr. Harish underscored that India’s actions successful Operation Sindoor were measured, non-escalatory, and responsible, and focused connected dismantling the violent infrastructure and disabling terrorists.
“Till May 9, Pakistan was threatening much attacks connected India. But connected May 10, the Pakistani subject called our subject straight and pleaded for a cessation to the fighting,” helium said, adding that the demolition caused to aggregate Pakistani airbases by the Indian operation, including images of destroyed runways and burnt-out hangars, is successful the nationalist domain.
Hitting retired powerfully astatine Pakistan for raising the contented of Jammu and Kashmir, Mr. Harish said Pakistan has nary locus standi to remark connected matters that are interior to India.
“The Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has been, is, and volition ever stay an integral and inalienable portion of India,” helium said.
On the Indus Waters Treaty, Mr. Harish said India had entered into the statement 65 years agone successful bully faith, successful a tone of goodwill and friendship.
“Throughout these six and a fractional decades, Pakistan has violated the tone of the Treaty by inflicting 3 wars and thousands of panic attacks connected India. Thousands of Indian lives person been mislaid successful Pakistan-sponsored panic attacks,” helium said.
In the aftermath of the Pahalgam panic attack, Mr. Harish said India was “compelled to yet denote that the Treaty volition beryllium held successful abeyance until Pakistan, a planetary epicentre of terror, credibly and irrevocably ends its enactment for cross-border and each different forms of terrorism.” Further, India asserted that Pakistan is good advised to introspect astir the regularisation of law.
"It could commencement by asking itself however it has fto its equipped forces technologist a law coup done the 27th amendment and giving life-time immunity to its Chief of Defence Forces,” a notation to the 27th Constitutional Amendment passed successful November past twelvemonth nether Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif that gives Pakistan’s Field Marshal Asim Munir lifelong immunity from immoderate ineligible prosecution.
