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In a crisp retort, India ripped done Pakistan's "divisive agenda" astatine the UN Security Council, calling retired Islamabad's “unique” mode of respecting the volition of its radical by jailing a premier curate and giving beingness immunity to its service chief.
India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni, delivered a beardown effect successful the Security Council connected Monday (December 15, 2025) aft Pakistan's Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad raised the issues of Jammu and Kashmir and the Indus Waters Treaty during an unfastened statement connected 'Leadership for Peace'.
"Pakistan’s unwarranted notation to Jammu and Kashmir successful today’s unfastened statement attests to its obsessive absorption connected harming India and its people. A serving non-permanent Security Council Member that chooses to further this obsession successful each meetings and platforms of the UN successful pursuit of its divisive docket cannot beryllium expected to fulfil its designated responsibilities and obligations.
“Let maine beryllium wide — India volition antagonistic Pakistan-sponsored coercion successful each its forms and manifestations with each its might,” Mr. Harish said.
India besides rejected the Pakistani envoy's assertion that the contented of Jammu and Kashmir should beryllium settled successful accordance with the UN Charter, applicable Security Council resolutions and the volition of the Kashmiri people.
“Pakistan, of course, has a unsocial mode of respecting the volition of its radical -- by jailing a premier minister, by banning the ruling governmental party, and by letting its equipped forces technologist a law coup done the 27th amendment and giving life-time immunity to its Chief of Defence Forces,” Harish said.
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has been imprisoned since his apprehension successful August 2023 connected corruption charges and has reportedly been held for extended periods successful solitary confinement.
UN Special Rapporteur connected Torture Alice Jill Edwards has urged the Pakistani authorities to instrumentality contiguous enactment to code reports of Khan's "inhumane and undignified" detention conditions, informing that they whitethorn magnitude to torture oregon different ill-treatment.
The 27th Constitutional Amendment, passed past period nether Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, gives Pakistan's Chief of Defence Forces and service main Field Marshal Asim Munir lifelong immunity from immoderate ineligible prosecution.
Harish further reiterated that the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are an integral and inalienable portion of India. "They were, are, and volition ever stay so,” helium said.
Mr. Harish added that India had entered into the Indus Waters Treaty 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,” helium said.
“In the past 4 decades, tens of thousands of Indian lives person been mislaid successful Pakistan-sponsored panic attacks, the astir caller of which was the Pahalgam panic attack,” successful April 2025, which progressive religion-based targeted killings of 26 guiltless civilians.
“It is successful this backdrop that India has yet announced that the Treaty volition beryllium held successful abeyance until Pakistan, which is simply a planetary epicentre of terror, credibly and irrevocably ends its enactment for cross-border and each different forms of terrorism,” Mr. Harish said.
