India slams Pakistan at United Nations, accuses Islamabad of bombing own people
PTC Web Desk: India has delivered a sharp rebuttal to Pakistan at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) with its representative Kshitij Tyagi accusing Islamabad of targeting its own citizens while misusing the global platform to attack New Delhi.
Speaking under Agenda Item 4 of the UNHRC session, Tyagi — a 2012-batch Indian Foreign Service officer — dismissed Pakistan’s allegations as “baseless and provocative.” He asserted, “A delegation that epitomises the antithesis of this approach continues to abuse this forum with baseless and provocative statements against India. Instead of coveting our territory, they would do well to vacate the Indian territory under their illegal occupation and focus on rescuing an economy on life support, a polity muzzled by military dominance, and a human rights record stained by persecution — perhaps once they find time away from exporting terrorism, harbouring UN-proscribed terrorists, and bombing their own people.”
#BREAKING: Indian Diplomat Kshitij Tyagi at UN Human Rights Council exposes Pakistan for bombing their own people in KPK yesterday apart from persecution, human rights violations and illegally occupying Indian territory.
“A delegation that epitomises the antithesis of this… pic.twitter.com/E1CgY1PBsV — Aditya Raj Kaul (@AdityaRajKaul) September 23, 2025
His remarks came a day after reports emerged of a deadly Pakistani airstrike at Matre Dara village of Tirah Valley, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which allegedly killed at least 30 civilians, including women and children. Eyewitnesses described scenes of devastation with destroyed homes, burnt vehicles, and victims pulled from rubble.
India further underlined that the Council’s mandate must remain “universal, objective, and non-selective,” warning that country-specific resolutions risked creating “perceptions of bias and selectivity.”
Meanwhile, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) expressed “shock” over the civilian deaths in the Tirah Valley strike and called for accountability.
- With inputs from agencies
