India strongly rebukes Pakistan at UNSC, calls its Kashmir claims "delusional tirade"

During the United Nations Security Council's (UNSC) Open debate on Women, Peace, and Security, India rebuked Pakistan over its "delusional tirade" over Kashmir every year, further underlining the 1971 "systematic genocide" campaign allowing a mass raoe of 40,000 women in East Pakistan by the Pakistani Army.  

India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Parvathaneni Harish, said that India was "unfortunately fated to listen to the delusional tirade of Pakistan", which "distracts the world with misdirection and hyperbole."  

Harish stated, "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 scathed." 

He added further, "A country that bombs its own people, conducts systematic genocide, can only attempt to distract the world with misdirection and hyperbole. This is the country that conducted Operation Searchlight in 1971 and sanctioned a systematic campaign of genocidal mass rape of 4,00,000 women citizens by its own army. The world sees through Pakistan's propaganda." 

Back in 1971, the Pakistani Army launched Operation Searchlight in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) with a brutal elimination, killing over 3 million people and raping nearly 40,000 women. The crackdown targeted only Bengali civilians and minorities. Later on, India also intervened, leading to the Liberation War, which formed Bangladesh. 

With the remark about "bombing its own people", Harish was referring to last month's overnight air strike by the Pakistani Air Force in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa village, which killed over 30 people. 

Earlier in September, while representing India at the 60th session of the Human Rights Council, Kshitij Tyagi, Counselor, India's Permanent Mission of India, Geneva, also hit out at Pakistan. 

In his address, Tyagi said, "A delegation that epitomises the antithesis of this approach continues to abuse this forum with baseless and provocative statements against India." 

Adding, "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."