United Nations, Sep 29 : India on Saturday lambasted Pakistan for extending continued support to terrorism on Indian soil and blamed Islamabad for sabotaging the talks process.
In her address to the 73rd Session of the UN General Assembly, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj also urged the UN to adopt the India-initiated Comprehensive Convention on International terrorismn (CCIT) at the earliest so that this global scourge can be defined in definite terms as Pakistan calls terrorists freedom fighters.
"In our case, terrorism is bred not in some faraway land, but across our border," Sushma Swaraj said
"Our neighbour's expertise is not restricted to spawning grounds for terrorism; it is also an expert in trying to mask malevolence with verbal duplicity," she said.
Sushma Swaraj said that the charge that India has sabotaged the talks process is a lie
"We believe that talks are only rational means to resolve the most complex of disputes," she said.
"Talks with Pakistan have begun many times. If they stopped, it was only because of their behaviour."
Sushma Swaraj said that those who take innocent human lives in pursuit of war by other means are defenders of inhuman behaviour, not of human rights.
"Pakistan glorifies killers; it refuses to see the blood of innocents," she said in an acerbic attack.
She also urged the UN for an early adoption of the CCIT that was introduced by India to the world body in 1996.
"Till today, that draft has remained a draft, because we cannot agree on a common language," Sushma Swaraj said.
"On the one hand, we want to fight terrorism; on the other, we cannot define it while in Pakistan terrorists are called freedom fighters," she added.
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Mangaluru: Mustafa Bengre has been unanimously elected as the District President of the Students Islamic Organisation of India, Dakshina Kannada Unit (SIO DK), for the 2026 term. The election was conducted through an internal organisational process, led by SIO Karnataka State Secretary Sufyan Zain.
Mustafa Bengre holds a BBA degree from Mangalore University and is a resident of Kasba Bengre in Mangaluru. He is currently working as a sales executive at Vibro Aqua.
He has previously served as the District Secretary of SIO Dakshina Kannada, City Secretary of SIO Mangaluru and has been actively involved in several social service initiatives in Bengre and across the Dakshina Kannada district.
