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Pakistan Can Choose To Stoop Low, We Will Soar High: India Ahead Of UN Meet

Darpan News Desk IANS, 20 Sep, 2019 08:37 PM

    India will soar high even if Pakistan chooses to "stoop low" at the high-level UN General Assembly session next week, India's top envoy to the United Nations has asserted, warning that Islamabad may want to mainstream hate speech after normalising terrorism in the past.


    Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has vowed to raise the Kashmir issue at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) session in New York on September 27. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also scheduled to speak the same day.


    Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said Imran Khan will "forcefully" raise the issue before the international community during his address to the UNGA.


    At a press conference on Thursday, India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Syed Akbaruddin was asked whether he expected the Kashmir issue to come up during the UN General Assembly session, and, if so, how will India tackle it.


    "What you're telling me is that it will be more of the same, much more of the same from the side of one country. If that is so what is our response? So let me put it this way. That it is for every country to determine its trajectory of how it wants to approach global platforms. There may be some who stoop low. Our response to them is we soar high. They may stoop low, we soar high," he said.


    "We are confident that we will soar. We have given you examples of how we will not stoop. We will soar when they stoop low," he said.


    Mr Akbaruddin also laid out the focus and priorities of Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he arrives for the 74th UN General Assembly session.


    He said a plethora of plurilateral, multilateral and bilateral engagements and meetings of the Prime Minister outline the examples of how India will soar higher.


    "What they want to do is their call. We've seen them mainstream terrorism in the past. And what you're now telling me is they may want to mainstream hate speech. It's their call, if they want to do that. Poison pens don't work for too long," he said.


    Tension between India and Pakistan escalated after New Delhi constitutionally revoked Jammu and Kashmir's 'temporarily special status' on August 5 and creating two union territories out of the state. Reacting to India''s move on Kashmir, Pakistan downgraded diplomatic ties with New Delhi and sent back the Indian High Commissioner.


    Pakistan has been trying to internationalise the issue but India has asserted that the abrogation of Article 370 was its "internal matter". New Delhi has also asked Islamabad to accept the reality and stop its anti-India rhetoric

     

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