NEW DELHI: India on Tuesday firmly rejected Pakistan‘s reference to Jammu and Kashmir throughout an open debate on the United Nations Safety Councilsaying the Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh are an integral a part of India and can at all times stay so. Talking on the UNSC Open Debate on “Management for Peace”, India’s Everlasting Consultant to the UN, Ambassador Harish P, stated Pakistan’s repeated point out of Jammu and Kashmir mirrored an “obsessive focus” on harming India and its folks. He stated: “I seek advice from the assertion made by the consultant of Pakistan at the moment. India wish to reiterate that the Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh are an integral and inalienable a part of India. They have been, are, and can at all times stay so. Pakistan’s unwarranted reference to Jammu & Kashmir in at the moment’s open debate attests to its obsessive concentrate on harming India and its folks. A serving non-permanent Safety Council Member that chooses to additional this obsession in all conferences and platforms of the UN in pursuit of its divisive agenda can’t be anticipated to satisfy its designated obligations and obligations.”The Indian envoy stated India signed the Indus Waters Therapy 65 years in the past in good religion and with a spirit of friendship. Nevertheless, he stated Pakistan had violated the spirit of the treaty over the a long time by waging three wars and sponsoring hundreds of terror assaults towards India. He added that tens of hundreds of Indian lives have been misplaced in Pakistan-sponsored terrorism over the past 4 a long time.Referring to the April 2025 Pahalgam terror assault, the ambassador stated, “The Pahalgam terror assault in April 2025, concerned religion-based focused killings of 26 harmless civilians by Pakistan-sponsored terrorists. It’s on this backdrop that India has lastly introduced that the Treaty will probably be held in obedience till Pakistan, which is a worldwide epicentre of terror, credibly and irrevocably ends its assist for cross-border and all different types of terrorism.,Ambassador Harish additionally criticized Pakistan’s inner political state of affairs, referring to the jailing of a former prime minister, the banning of a political get together, and constitutional adjustments that grant immunity to navy management.He additional India would proceed to counter Pakistan-sponsored terrorism in all its kinds with full resolve.