New York: In response to the allegations of Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi that New Delhi was behind the deadly terror attack on a Peshawar School in 2014, India vehemently lashed out at Pak and said it was the “most outrageous and preposterous allegation.”
Shah Mehmood Qureshi made these allegations while speaking at the UNGA after External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj had launched a scathing attack on Islamabad for harbouring terrorists and masking malevolence with duplicity.
India’s Eenam Gambhir strongly rebutted Shah’s allegation. Using the Right to Reply at the UNGA, Gambhir said, “Let me recollect for Pakistan’s new government, the out-pouring of sorrow and pain in India that followed the massacre of innocent school children. India’s parliament had expressed solidarity while paying respect to the memory of those killed. Schools all over India had observed two minutes silence in their memory.”
“Can Pakistan deny that it’s the host and patron of 132 of the UN designated terrorists, 22 terrorist entities sanctioned under the 1267 and 1988 UN Security Council Sanctions Regime as of today?” Gambhir added.
Slamming Islamabad’s claims that India cancelled talks the between the foreign ministers of the two countries on “flimsy grounds”, Eenam Gambhir said the new Foreign Minister chose to term the gruesome killing of Indian security personnel by Pakistani sponsored terrorists as flimsy grounds. While it may not be the case for Pakistan but for India every loss of life counts. India believes talks and terror can’t go together.
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