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Pahalgam Attack
India's deputy permanent representative at the UN, Yojna Patel, speaking at the UN on Monday. Photo courtesy: Screen-grab

India calls Pakistan 'a rogue state fuelling global terrorism' at UN amid rising border tension after Pahalgam attack

| @indiablooms | Apr 29, 2025, at 11:26 am

New York/IBNS: India has called Pakistan "a rogue state fuelling global terrorism" at the United Nations in the backdrop of the simmering border tension between the two nuclear powers-armed South Asian countries after the Pahalgam terror attack.

India's deputy permanent representative at the UN, Yojna Patel, referred to Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Asif's recent interview where he admitted his country funds and backs terrorist groups. 

Speaking at the launch of Victims of Terrorism Associations Network, Patel said on Monday, "It is unfortunate that one particular delegation has chosen to misuse and undermine this forum to indulge in propaganda and make baseless allegations against India.

"The whole world has heard Pakistan's Defence Minister Khwaja Asif admitting and confessing Pakistan's history of supporting, training and funding terrorist organisations in a recent television interview. This open confession surprises no one and exposes Pakistan as a rogue state fuelling global terrorism and destabilising the region. The world can no longer turn a blind eye."

"The Pahalgam terrorist attack represents the largest number of civilian casualties since the horrific 26/11 Mumbai attacks in 2008. Having been a victim of cross-border terrorism for decades, India fully understands the long-lasting impact such acts have on victims, their families and society," she added.

In an interview with Sky News, Asif said, "Well, we have been doing this dirty work for the United States for about three decades... and the West, including Britain...That was a mistake, and we suffered for that, and that is why you are saying this to me. If we had not joined the war against the Soviet Union and later on the war after 9/11, Pakistan's track record was unimpeachable."

Pahalgam terror attack

Twenty-six people, including 23 Hindu male tourists, were killed by terrorists in Baisaran meadows, a popular destination in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam, on April 22.

The terrorists- belonging to The Resistance Front (TRF), which is an offshoot of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)- asked the victims to chant Islamic verses (kalma) and made them pull down their pants to be sure of their their non-Muslim religious identities (read circumcision)  before gunning them down before their families, including wives, children and daughters.

The massacre triggered a nationwide outrage and escalated India-Pakistan tensions as New Delhi vowed to avenge the killings.

In an immediate response  India suspended the landmark Indus River water-sharing treaty and closed the Attari-Wagah road border which acts a lifeline of Indo-Pak trade and people-to-people ties, besides expelling diplomats, downsizing high commissions and issuing a 48-hour deadline to Pakistani visa holders present in India to leave.

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