With Pakistan trying to present “false and self-serving” narrative over Operation Sindoor, Parvathaneni Harish, the permanent representative of India to the United Nations, on Monday blasted the neighbouring country at the United Nations Security Council, saying Pakistan’s sole agenda is to “harm my country and my people”.
The Indian envoy also reiterated that it was ultimately the Pakistani side that “pleaded” for a ceasefire after suffering multiple setbacks in the four-day military conflict.
Harish’s remarks made resounding headlines after he notably countered the comments made by his Pakistani counterpart at UN, Asim Ifitkhar Ahmad, during a Security Council open debate on “Reaffirming International Rule of Law: Pathways to Reinvigorating Peace, Justice, and Multilateralism.”
Debates surrounding the issue of Jammu and Kashmir and the Indus Water Treatyhave long divided both the countries. Last year, April’s Pahalgam Attack and India’s subsequent Operation Sindoor have since joined the list. And so, all these controversial matters once again became the talking points of the open debate at the UN, which resulted in Harish lambasting the Pakistani UN envoy.
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On Operation Sindoor: Indian envoy slams Pak yet again
Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations, Parvathaneni Harish, began his lengthy response by saying: “now respond to the comments of the representative of Pakistan, an elected member of the Security Council, which has a single-point agenda to harm my country and my people.”
Speaking out against his Pak counterpart, the Indian envoy continued, “in May last year… Till 9th of May, Pakistan was threatening more attacks on India. But on the 10th of May, the Pakistani military called our military directly and pleaded for a cessation to the fighting.”
#WATCH | Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations, Parvathaneni Harish, says, "I now respond to the comments of the representative of Pakistan, an elected member of the Security Council, which has a single-point agenda to harm my country and my people. He has… pic.twitter.com/I8pX4tt1zl
— ANI (@ANI) January 27, 2026 Right from the beginning, the Indian government has maintained that India’s “retaliatory response” to “ akistan-backed attackers” storming a village in Pahalgam and killing 26 people in April was “focused, measured and non-escalatory.” As per the press releases and briefings from May, the Indian side has repeatedly asserted that Pakistani military establishments were not targeted, as the operation was launched to “destroy the terror bases behind the attack.”
In his recent comments at the UN, the Indian envoy argued that the Pakistani military called the Indian side and “pleaded for a cessation to the fighting” on May 10, 2025. He also pointed towards the destruction caused to multiple Pakistani bases during Operation Sindoor having been proved by widely circulated “images of destroyed runways and burnt-out hangars” in the public domain.
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Reaffirming India’s anti-terrorism stance at the global stage, Harish continued, “We have heard talk from the representative of Pakistan about the new normal. Let me reiterate again that terrorism can never be normalised as Pakistan wishes to do. It is not normal to tolerate Pakistan’s continued use of terrorism as an instrument of state policy. This hallowed chamber cannot become a forum for Pakistan to legitimise terrorism…”
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Further arguing that Pakistan had no locus standi to comment on matters of internal concern to India, he added, “The Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir has been, is, and will always remain an integral and inalienable part of India. India entered into the Indus Waters Treaty 65 years ago in good faith, in a spirit of goodwill and friendship.”
The top Indian representative to the UN then presented a reminder about how Pakistan has repeatedly violated “the spirit of the treaty by inflicting three wars and thousands of terror attacks on India” over the past six decades.
“Thousands of Indian lives have been lost in Pakistan-sponsored terror attacks. India was compelled to finally announce that the treaty will be held in abeyance until Pakistan, a global epicentre of terror, credibly and irrevocably ends its support for cross-border and all other forms of terrorism,” Harish added.
Indian envoy hits out against Pak army chief’s lifelong immunity
Sending a direct message to Pakistan, Harish advised the country to introspect, while alluding to the 27th Constitutional Amendment, which grants lifetime legal immunity to Pakistan’s Chief of Defence Forces, Field Marshal Asim Munir. The amendment was signed into law in November 2025 under PM Shehbaz Sharif’s government.
“akistan is well-advised to introspect about the rule of law. It could start by asking itself how it has let its armed forces engineer a constitutional coup through the 27th Amendment and giving lifetime immunity to its chief of defence forces,” the Indian envoy said. |
