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India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Harish Parvataneni, on Monday, December 15, reacted strongly after Pakistan’s Ambassador to the Security Council Asim Iftikhar Ahmed raised the issues of Jammu and Kashmir and Indus Water Treaty during an open debate on ‘Leadership for Peace’.
“Pakistan’s inappropriate reference to Jammu and Kashmir in today’s open debate attests to its obsessive focus on harming India and its people. A serving non-permanent Security Council member who chooses to pursue this obsession in all UN meetings and platforms to further his divisive agenda cannot be expected to fulfill his assigned responsibilities and obligations.
“Let me make it clear – India will combat Pakistan-sponsored terrorism in all its forms and manifestations with all our might,” Harish said.
India also rejected the Pakistani envoy’s claim that the issue of Jammu and Kashmir should be resolved in accordance with the UN Charter, relevant Security Council resolutions and the wishes of the Kashmiri people.
Harish said, “Of course, Pakistan has a unique way of honoring the will of its people – by jailing a prime minister, banning the ruling political party, and allowing its armed forces to carry out constitutional coups through the 27th Amendment and granting lifetime immunity to the chief of its defense forces.”
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has been jailed since his arrest in August 2023 on corruption charges and has reportedly been kept in solitary confinement for long periods.
UN Special Rapporteur on torture Alice Jill Edwards has urged the Pakistani government to take immediate action to address reports of Khan’s “inhumane and degrading” detention conditions, warning that these may amount to torture or other ill-treatment.
The 27th constitutional amendment, passed last month under Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, gives lifetime immunity from any legal prosecution to Pakistan’s defense forces chief and Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir.
Harish further reiterated that the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are an integral and inseparable part of India. “He was, is and always will be,” he said.
Harish said India had entered into the Indus Water Treaty 65 years ago in the spirit of goodwill, goodwill and friendship.
He said, “During these six and a half decades, Pakistan has violated the spirit of the treaty by waging three wars and thousands of terrorist attacks on India.”
“Over the past four decades, thousands of Indians have lost their lives in Pakistan-sponsored terrorist attacks, the most recent of which was the Pahalgam terrorist attack,” in April 2025, which involved religion-based targeted killings of 26 innocent civilians.
“It is in this backdrop that India has finally announced that the treaty will remain in abeyance until Pakistan, the global epicenter of terrorism, credibly and irreversibly ends its support for cross-border and all other forms of terrorism,” Harish said.