India's reply to Imran Khan's UN speech: Will Pakistan deny it is home to 130 UN-designated terrorists?
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- Sep 28, 2019,
- Updated Sep 28, 2019 1:36 PM IST
In a stern reply to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's speech at the UN General Assembly in New York on Friday, India said its Indians don't need Pakistan, a country that has built an industry of "terrorism from the ideology of hate", to talk on their behalf. India also raised several questions over Pakistan's claims of clamping down on terror activities on its soil. Vidisha Maitra, First Secretary Ministry of External Affairs, while exercising India's right of reply to Khan's speech, said Khan's threat of unleashing nuclear devastation qualifies as "brinksmanship not statesmanship".
She said Khan's speech was full of "divisiveness" and is an "attempt to sharpen differences and stir up hatred". "Simply put, it is hate speech," she added. On Khan drumming up hysteria about a nuclear war with India and claiming that his government had dismantled all terrorist groups in Pakistan, the Indian representative, through the UN Assembly, asked some uncomfortable questions from him: "Will Pakistan acknowledges that it is the only government in the world that provides pension to an individual listed by the UN in the Al-Qaeda and Daesh sanctions list?"
In a stern reply to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's speech at the UN General Assembly in New York on Friday, India said its Indians don't need Pakistan, a country that has built an industry of "terrorism from the ideology of hate", to talk on their behalf. India also raised several questions over Pakistan's claims of clamping down on terror activities on its soil. Vidisha Maitra, First Secretary Ministry of External Affairs, while exercising India's right of reply to Khan's speech, said Khan's threat of unleashing nuclear devastation qualifies as "brinksmanship not statesmanship".
She said Khan's speech was full of "divisiveness" and is an "attempt to sharpen differences and stir up hatred". "Simply put, it is hate speech," she added. On Khan drumming up hysteria about a nuclear war with India and claiming that his government had dismantled all terrorist groups in Pakistan, the Indian representative, through the UN Assembly, asked some uncomfortable questions from him: "Will Pakistan acknowledges that it is the only government in the world that provides pension to an individual listed by the UN in the Al-Qaeda and Daesh sanctions list?"