India on Tuesday rejected Pakistan’s remark at the United Nations that the Kashmir conflict was one the “most glaring and long-standing” disputes, saying that Islamabad should focus on the “unfinished” task of tackling terrorism, PTI reported.
Vidisha Maitra, first secretary of India’s Permanent Mission to the UN, made the statement exercising her right to reply to counter the reference to Kashmir. “We reject the malicious reference made to the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, which is an integral part of India,” she said. “If there is an item that is unfinished on the agenda of the UN, it is that of tackling the scourge of terrorism.”
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi had on Monday brought up the Kashmir dispute during his address on the 75th anniversary of the UN. “The organisation is only as good as its member states wish it to…