India delivered a blistering retort at the UN Security Council, slamming the Pakistani envoy for peddling a ‘false and self-serving’ narrative regarding ‘Operation Sindoor’. New Delhi then added that it was not normal at all to tolerate Islamabad’s continued use of terrorism as an instrument of state policy. These sharp responses were delivered as a response by India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish, in response to comments made by Pakistan’s Ambassador to the UN, Asim Iftikhar Ahmad.
Ahmad spoke about Operation Sindoor, Jammu and Kashmir, and the Indus Waters Treaty in his remarks at the UNSC open debate on ‘Reaffirming International Rule of Law: Pathways to Reinvigorating Peace, Justice, and Multilateralism.’
Harish said Pakistan has a single-point agenda, and that is to harm India and its people. Pakistani envoy tells the Council that its response to Operation Sindoor ‘established that there can be no new normal based on coercion or impunity’. Replying to this, Delhi slammed Islamabad, with Harish asserting that terrorism can never be normalised as Pakistan wishes to do.
"We have heard talk from the Representative of Pakistan about the new normal. Let me reiterate again that terrorism can never be normalised as Pakistan wishes to do. It is not normal to tolerate Pakistan’s continued use of terrorism as an instrument of state policy. This hallowed chamber cannot become a forum for Pakistan to legitimise terrorism,” Harish asserted.
He then openly took a dig at Pakistan’s envoy for ‘advancing a false and self-serving account’ of Operation Sindoor. The operation was launched by India in May last year, targeting nine terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir as a retaliatory response for the April 22 Pahalgam attack in which 26 innocent people were killed.
“The facts on this matter are clear. Pakistan-sponsored terrorists killed 26 innocent people in a brutal attack in Pahalgam in April 2025. This august body itself called for holding the perpetrators, organisers, financiers, and sponsors of this reprehensible act of terrorism accountable and brought to justice. That is exactly what we did,” Harish said.
Taking into reference the statement of the UNSC on the Pahalgam terror attack, Harish underscored that India’s actions in Operation Sindoor were measured, non-escalatory, and responsible, and focused on dismantling the terrorist infrastructure and disabling terrorists.
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