India rebuts Pakistan at UNSC, reaffirms J&K as integral, flags terror record and Indus Treaty abeyance
New Delhi, December 19. India has issued a sharp rebuttal to Pakistan at the United Nations Security Council’s open debate on ‘Leadership for Peace’, dismissing Islamabad’s references to “unresolved disputes” in Jammu and Kashmir as unwarranted and politically motivated. New Delhi reaffirmed that the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are an integral and inalienable part of India and will remain so.
India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni, criticised Pakistan for misusing the UN platform to advance what he described as an obsessive and divisive agenda against India. He characterised Pakistan as the “global epicentre of terror” and said its conduct undermines the responsibilities expected of a non-permanent member of the Security Council.
Responding directly to Pakistan’s intervention on December 15, the envoy said that Islamabad’s repeated attempts to raise Jammu and Kashmir in multilateral forums reflect a fixation on harming India and its people rather than contributing constructively to international peace and security.
“A serving non-permanent member of the Security Council that chooses to pursue such an obsession across UN platforms cannot be expected to uphold its designated responsibilities and obligations,” he said.
Ambassador Parvathaneni also highlighted Pakistan’s long history of sponsoring terrorism to justify India’s decision to place the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance. He noted that although India entered into the treaty in good faith over six decades ago, Pakistan has repeatedly violated its spirit by waging wars and orchestrating thousands of terror attacks against India.
Referring to the April 2025 Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 civilians in a targeted, religion-based assault, he said the incident underscored Pakistan’s continued support for cross-border terrorism.
In this context, he said India has decided to keep the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance until Pakistan takes credible and irreversible steps to end its support for terrorism in all forms.
