Pakistan Brings Kashmir In Israel-Palestine Issue At UNSC; India Treats With Contempt, Doesn't "Dignify With Response"

India firmly reacted to Pakistan's UN envoy Munir Akram making a reference to Kashmir during a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting on the Israel-Gaza situation and refrained from commenting on it on Tuesday (24 October).

India's Deputy Permanent Representative at the UN, Ambassador R Ravindra, stated, "Before I end, there was a remark of habitual nature by one delegation referring to Union Territories that are integral and inalienable parts of my country. I would treat these remarks with contempt they deserve and not dignify them with a response in the interest of time."

Akram critiquing the United States and other nations that have taken a robust anti-terrorism stance and supported India during terrorist attacks from Pakistan, or Israel during instances of terrorism from various sources, remarked, "Some in this council have extended protection to their allies who are oppressing occupied people in Palestine and in Kashmir."

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, addressing the Security Council meeting, emphasised, "We must affirm the right of any nation to defend itself and to prevent such horror from repeating itself. No member of this Council, no nation in this entire body could or would tolerate the slaughter of its people."

He further stated, "As this Council and the UN General Assembly have repeatedly affirmed, all acts of terrorism are unlawful and unjustifiable. They're unlawful and unjustifiable, whether they target people in Nairobi or Bali… Istanbul or Mumbai, in New York or Kibbutz Be’eri."

Blinken stressed that these acts are unlawful and unjustifiable, regardless of the organisation carrying them out, including groups like Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba or Palestine-based Hamas.

Blinken also emphasised the Security Council's responsibility to denounce member states that support or provide resources to terrorist groups, including Hamas, stating, "The Security Council has a responsibility to denounce member states that arm, fund, and train Hamas or any other terrorist group that carries out such horrific acts."

Mentioning Mumbai and Lashkar-e-Taiba shows that the remarks might be a reference to the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks carried out by the Pakistan-based terrorist organisation .