United Nations: The UN’s unfinished agenda item is tackling terrorism emanating from its epicentre in Pakistan, India has said here replying to Pakistan bringing up the Kashmir issue at the international organisation’s 75th Anniversary Commemoration session.
Vidisha Maitra, a First Secretary at India’s UN mission, said on Monday: “If there is an item that is unfinished on the agenda of the UN, it is that of tackling the scourge of terrorism.”
“Pakistan is a country which is globally recognised epicentre of terrorism, which by its own admission harbours and trains terrorists and hails them as martyrs, and consistently persecutes its ethnic and religious minorities,” she said.
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi had criticised the UN asserting that the Kashmir issue was among its “most glaring and long-standing failures” and that the organisation was being…