At the UN, Pakistan has once again emphatically stated that Jammu and Kashmir is neither so called integral part of India nor its internal matter.

In response to the remarks of the Indian representative at the UN Security Council, Counsellor at Pakistan's Permanent Mission to the UN Ms. Saima Saleem said India’s denial cannot rewrite history, change Jammu and Kashmir’s internationally recognized disputed status, or conceal nearly eight decades of systematic human rights violations against the Kashmiri people, including denial of their inalienable right to self-determination.

She said India itself brought Jammu and Kashmir dispute before the Security Council yet continues to defy its resolutions.

She said the path to peace in South Asia lies neither in denial nor in defiance, but in adherence to the Charter and international law.

The Counsellor said India is a State-sponsor of terrorism. She said Pakistan has lost nearly one hundred thousand citizens, including innocent men, women and children to terrorism perpetrated by the TTP, BLA and Majeed Brigade-proxies financed, armed, aided and abetted by India. 

Saima Saleem said India’s Hindutva-inspired right-wing fascist RSS-BJP government has turned Islamophobia into State policy, normalizing hate crimes and genocide against more than two hundred million Muslims. Other minorities, including Christians are persecuted, Dalits dehumanized and Sikhs disenfranchised in the largest hypocrisy of the world.