SOURCE: UNI
India on Saturday roundly slammed Pakistan at the UN General Assembly as a “dysfunctional nation coveting the lands of others” and asserted that Pakistan’s crossborder terrorism policy will never succeed and Islamabad can “have no expectation of impunity”, and instead “its actions will certainly have consequences”.
Giving a strong warning to Pakistan, a day after its prime minister Shehbaz Sharif launched a tirade against India at the world forum, where he raked up the Kashmir issue, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that the only issue to be resolved between the two nations is that of “vacation of illegally occupied Indian territory by Pakistan” and “the abandonment of Pakistan’s longstanding attachment to terrorism”. Giving India’s statement, the EAM said: “Many countries get left behind due to circumstances beyond their control. But some make conscious choices with disastrous consequences. “A premier example is our neighbour, Pakistan.
Unfortunately, their misdeeds affect others as well, especially the neighbourhood. “When this polity instils such fanaticism among its people, its GDP can only be measured in terms of radicalization and its exports in the form of terrorism. “Today, we see the ills it sought to visit on others consume its own society. It can’t blame the world; this is only karma.” “A dysfunctional nation coveting the lands of others must be exposed and must be countered.
We heard some bizarre assertions from it at this forum yesterday (referring to Shehbaz Sharif’s statement). “So let me make India’s position perfectly clear. “Pakistan’s cross-border terrorism policy will never succeed. And it can have no expectation of impunity. On the contrary, actions will certainly have consequences. “The issue to be resolved between us is now only the vacation of illegally occupied Indian territory by Pakistan. And of course the abandonment of Pakistan’s longstanding attachment to terrorism.”