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Jaishankar hits back at Pakistan at UNGA: 'serial practitioner of terrorism' distorted facts
India's External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar told the 81st UN General Assembly on Saturday that arguments normalising terrorism "will not stand," a day after Pakistan's PM Shehbaz Sharif raised the May 2025 confrontation in his address.
Why it matters
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told the Assembly on Friday that Pakistan had exercised its "inherent right of self-defence" under Article 51 of the UN Charter during the four-day military confrontation with India in May 2025, and credited US President Donald Trump's intervention with preventing further escalation. Jaishankar answered from the same podium a day later, turning the India-Pakistan terrorism dispute into open confrontation at the UN.
Full report
"Yesterday, a serial practitioner of terrorism misrepresented facts before this assembly. Arguments were invoked to normalise terrorism and claim immunity from its consequences. That will not stand," Jaishankar said. He stressed India's zero-tolerance approach to terrorism, said India's right to defend itself "will be exercised," and called for the financing of terrorism to be exposed and countered. He did not name Pakistan, but the reference was widely understood in diplomatic circles. "Friendship and goodwill cannot coexist with terrorism," he said. "It is for the perpetrator of terrorism to mend its ways."
Jaishankar also argued that every country must be free to develop AI systems aligned with its own priorities, rejecting a single global template; called for reforming multilateral institutions to reflect today's world, including India's long-sought permanent seat on the UN Security Council; and closed by quoting Mahatma Gandhi: "There is no way to peace. Peace is the way."
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