Pakistan minister’s confession exposes country fuelling global terrorism: India at UN

India’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Yojna Patel. PIC/PTI

India on Monday said that the open confession of Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif admitting to his country's history of supporting and funding terrorist organisations exposes Pakistan as a "rogue state" fuelling global terrorism and destabilising the region.

India's Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Yojna Patel delivered a strong ‘Right of Reply' at the hybrid launch event for the ‘Victims of Terrorism Association Network' (VoTAN) of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism here when Pakistan's delegate made a reference to the Pahalgam terror attack.

"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," Patel said. "The whole world has heard the Pakistani Defence Minister admitting and confessing Pakistan's history of supporting, training and funding terrorist organisations in a recent television interview," she said.

Patel asserted that "this open confession surprises no one and exposes Pakistan as a rogue state fueling global terrorism and destabilising the region." In a recent interview with Sky News, Asif said "Well, we have been doing this dirty work for the United States for about three decades, you know, and West, including Britain, to a comment that he admits that Pakistan has had a long history of backing, supporting, training and funding these terrorist organisations. Meanwhile, India on Tuesday said that it has withheld the X account of the Pakistani Defence Minister.

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