India responds as Pakistan’s interim prime minister mentions J&K at the UN: “Malicious propaganda”

Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar, the interim prime minister of Pakistan, mentioned Jammu and Kashmir in his speech to the UN General Assembly, prompting India to criticize Pakistan on Friday. Kashmir, according to Kakar, holds the key to achieving peace between India and Pakistan.

Pakistan has been a regular offender when it comes to utilizing this August venue to peddle unfounded and vicious propaganda against India, according to Petal Gahlot, India’s first secretary at the UN for the second committee of the UNGA.

The United Nations and other multilateral organizations’ members are fully aware that Pakistan uses this to divert attention from its own appalling record on human rights. We must again stress that Jammu and Kashmir are part of India as a whole. The issues involving the UTs of Ladakh and J&K are solely internal to India. No one from Pakistan has the right to weigh in on our internal affairs, she continued.

Pakistan has attempted to internationalize Jammu and Kashmir over the years in international venues like the UN. Pakistan has been under fire from India for harboring terrorists there.

Pakistan is undoubtedly the outlier in the neighborhood. We must prevent terrorism from becoming commonplace. We cannot allow it to serve as a foundation for negotiation with Pakistan, stated S. Jaishankar, the minister of foreign affairs, in June of this year.

After the terrorist assault in Pulwama on February 14, 2019, which resulted in the deaths of 40 members of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), tensions between India and Pakistan grew. India replied by conducting airstrikes on Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province’s Balakot.

Six months later that year, India repealed Article 370, stripping Jammu and Kashmir of its unique status. The previous state was divided into the regions of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh when Article 370 was repealed.