'Absurd theatrics': India rips Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif at UN over his speech
PTC News Desk: India on Friday delivered a searing rebuttal to Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's address at the 80th United Nations General Assembly, accusing him of "absurd theatrics" and glorifying terrorism while mocking his claim of "victory" in the May escalation.
Exercising India's right of reply at the general assembly, Petal Gahlot, First Secretary at India's Permanent Mission to the UN, said that the Prime Minister of Pakistan had sought to portray destruction of airbases in their country as a victory. While dismantling his narrative, the first secretary accused Islamabad of shielding terrorists and peddling "ludicrous narratives" to mask its role as a hub of terrorism.
The First Secretary also debunked Sharif's portrayal of the May conflict, noting that Pakistan's threats against India ceased only after Indian forces devastated multiple Pakistani airbases on May 10."The Prime Minister of Pakistan also advanced a bizarre account of the recent conflict with India. The record on this matter is clear. Till 9 May, Pakistan was threatening more attacks on India. But on 10 May, its military pleaded with us directly for a cessation to the fighting. The intervening event was the destruction caused to multiple Pakistani airbases by Indian forces. The pictures of that damage are, of course, publicly accessible. If destroyed runways and burnt-out hangers look like victory, as the Prime Minister claimed, Pakistan is welcome to enjoy it," she said.
Gahlot pointed to Pakistan's April 25, 2025, actions at the UN Security Council, where it protected 'The Resistance Front', a Pakistan-sponsored terror outfit responsible for the massacre of tourists in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam that claimed 26 people on Apirl 22."This Assembly witnessed absurd theatrics in the morning from the Prime Minister of Pakistan, who once again glorified terrorism that is so central to their foreign policy. However, no degree of drama and no level of lies can conceal the facts.
This is the very same Pakistan which, at the UN Security Council on 25 April 2025, shielded 'The Resistance Front', a Pakistani-sponsored terror outfit, from the responsibility of carrying out the barbaric massacre of tourists in the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir," she stated.
Highlighting Pakistan's history of duplicity,
Gahlot recalled its decade-long sheltering of Osama bin Laden while posing as a
partner in the global war on terror, adding that Pakistani ministers had
acknowledged operating terrorist camps for decades.
- ANI
