India Slams Pakistan's 'Delusional Tirade' On Kashmiri Women At UNSC

India has once again criticised Pakistan at the UN Security Council (UNSC), saying it bombs its own people.

Speaking during the Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security, India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish, stated that Pakistan conducts "systematic genocide" and can only attempt to "distract the world with misdirection and hyperbole".

He was responding to a Pakistani official's allegations that the Kashmiri women have "endured sexual violence for decades".

"Every year, we are unfortunately fated to listen to the delusional tirade of Pakistan against my country, especially on Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian territory they covet. Our pioneering record on the Women, Peace and Security agenda is unblemished and unscathed.

A country that bombs its own people, conducts systematic genocide, can only attempt to distract the world with misdirection and hyperbole. This is a country that conducted Operation Searchlight in 1971 and sanctioned a systematic campaign of genocidal mass rape of 400,000 women citizens by its own army. The world sees through Pakistan's propaganda..."

It may be recalled that India had condemned Pakistan at the 60th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council over its hypocrisy on human rights.

Diplomat Mohammed Hussain, representing India, said it was "deeply ironic" that a country with "one of the worst human rights records" was attempting to lecture others. "They misuse this forum with fabricated allegations against India, which only expose their hypocrisy," he said, asking Pakistan to address its "state-sponsored persecution and systematic discrimination" against its own religious and ethnic minorities.

"We find it deeply ironic that a country with one of the world's worst human rights records seeks to lecture others," Counsellor in the Permanent Mission of India, Geneva said.

"Their attempts to misuse this august forum with fabricated allegations against India only expose their hypocrisy. Instead of making baseless propaganda, they should confront the rampant state-sponsored persecution and systemic discrimination (of religious and ethnic minorities) that plague their own society," Hussain commented.