India dismisses UN's Kashmir resolution, repeats anti-Pakistan rhetoric in UNGA

NEW YORK: Dismissing the United Nations' resolution on Jammu and Kashmir, Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj continued her country's anti-Pakistan tirade in the UN General Assembly on Monday, calling on the international community to isolate Pakistan.

In her speech, Swaraj also ripped apart the United Nation's resolution declaring Jammu and Kashmir a disputed territory.

"My firm advice to Pakistan is: abandon this dream. Let me state unequivocally that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India and will always remain so," Swaraj said, in violation of the UN's resolution on the Himalayan region being a disputed territory.

While keeping mum on India's human rights abuses in Occupied Kashmir, the Indian foreign minister hinted at the Pakistani prime minister's speech and claimed Nawaz Sharif had hurled baseless accusations at India.

Swaraj tried to divert attention from atrocities in Indian Occupied Kashmir by speaking about Balochistan.

She said that those nations who give cover to terrorism and nurture it should be isolated, adding that terrorism is the biggest enemy of humanity.

“But what did we get in return, Pathankot, Uri and Bahadur Ali,” she said referring to the attacks on the Indian security forces' base.

In her speech, the Indian Foreign Minister said that India is not bound to have negotiations with Pakistan.

She claimed Modi had extended goodwill gestures to Pakistan by inviting PM Sharif to his oath ceremony in 2014.

She harped her on old stance saying that Kashmir is an integral part of India, adding that Pakistan should stop dreaming about Kashmir.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in his UNGA speech had highlighted Indian human rights abuses in Indian Occupied Kashmir and said that peace between India and Pakistan cannot be achieved without a resolution to the Kashmir dispute.

He had said that a new generation of Kashmiris has risen spontaneously against India's illegal occupation, demanding freedom from occupation.

Nawaz Sharif had said that Pakistan will not allow externally sponsored terrorism and threats of destabilisation to cause turbulence in the country.

The Pakistani prime minister had said that Pakistan is not interested in an arms race with India.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had also threatened Pakistan of "isolating it in the entire world."

In the wake of the escalation of conflict in Indian Occupied Kashmir following hizbul Mujahideen leader Burhan Wani's killing in July and the attack on army base in Uri that left 18 Indian soldiers dead, the ties between the two neighbours worsened further.

Earlier, Burhan's father Muzaffar Wani said that he appreciated Nawaz Sharif's speech in the United Nations.