Bombs its people, orders mass rape: India slams Pak@UNSC

Tue, 07 October 2025

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In a strong retort against Pakistan in the UN Security Council, India on Monday said its neighbour as a country that bombs its own people and conducts systematic genocide.

During his remarks to the UNSC open debate on Women, Peace and Security, India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish said Pakistan conducted Operation Searchlight in 1971 and sanctioned a systematic campaign of genocidal mass rape of 400,000 women citizens by its own army.

"Every year, we are unfortunately fated to listen to the delusional tirade of Pakistan against my country, especially on Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian territory they covet," the Indian envoy said. "A country that bombs its own people, conducts systematic genocide, can only attempt to distract the world with misdirection and hyperbole," Harish said. "The world sees through Pakistan's propaganda," he added.

On March 25, 1971, the Pakistani army had launched a brutal crackdown involving widespread civilian killings throughout East Pakistan code-named 'Operation Searchlight'. Harish told the council meeting chaired by Russia that India's record on the "women, peace and security" agenda is unblemished and unscathed.

India's strong response in the council came after Pakistan, in its statement, raised the issue of Jammu and Kashmir. To exclude Kashmiri women from the Women, Peace and Security agenda erases its legitimacy and undermines its universality, the Pakistani delegate said in her statement. Harish, in his remarks, also said that India remains unwavering in its commitment to the Women, Peace and Security agenda and stands ready to share its expertise with partners, particularly those in the Global South, fostering collective solutions to shared challenges.

He highlighted India's consistent contribution to UN peacekeeping as an expression of its commitment to global peace. What distinguishes India's peacekeeping legacy is not merely the scale of our contribution, but our pioneering recognition of women as indispensable agents of peace, he said.

As early as the 1960s, India deployed women medical officers to the Congo, marking one of the earliest instances of women serving in UN peacekeeping operations, the ambassador said. This was not merely a symbolic gesture but a practical acknowledgement that women's perspectives, skills, and presence are essential to effective peacekeeping, he said. -- PTI

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