Indo-Pakistan tensions escalate to UN level

India, which is vowing retaliation for the recent Pahalgam terror attacks, which claimed 26 lives, has gone to the extent of calling Pakistan a “rogue state” at the United Nations, highlighting Pakistani Defence Minister Khwaja Asif's “open confession” to training and funding terrorists, days after the Pahalgam terror attack that claimed 26 lives, according to a report in the Hindustan Times.

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In a recent interview with Sky News, the Pakistani Defence Minister Khwaja Asif admitted that Pakistan has been funding and backing terrorist groups.

In the video, the Pakistan Defence Minister was asked by Sky News's Yalda Hakim if he admitted that Pakistan has had a long history of backing, supporting, training and funding these terrorist organisations.

Khwaja Asif in his reply said, “We have been doing this dirty work for the United States for about three decades... and the West, including Britain...That was a mistake, and we suffered for that, and that is why you are saying this to me. If we had not joined the war against the Soviet Union and later on the war after 9/11, Pakistan's track record was unimpeachable.”

India's deputy permanent representative at the UN Yojna Patel on Monday said the confession was not surprising, and it exposed Pakistan as a “rogue state” that has been fuelling global terrorism.

“It is unfortunate that one particular delegation has chosen to misuse and undermine this forum to indulge in propaganda and make baseless allegations against India. The whole world has heard Pakistan's Defence Minister Khwaja Asif admitting and confessing Pakistan's history of supporting, training and funding terrorist organisations in a recent business, film, journalist, transit, conference, mountaineering, student, visitor, group tourist and pilgrim visas must leave India by April 27.