India launched a scorching salvo against Pakistan’s campaign against it, saying that the Islamabad-backed Pahalgam attack is indelibly fresh in the world’s memory, and the terrorism sponsor stands exposed before all as the worst violator of human rights.

Raghoo Puri, a first Secretary at India’s UN Mission, said yesterday that the international community stands witness to Pakistan’s sponsorship of cross-border terrorism and its use of terrorism as a tool of State policy directed against India. Mr Puri was responding during an interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism at the General Assembly’s Third Committee that deals with humanitarian affairs. Mr Puri defended Operation Sindoor, which India launched in May this year against terrorist bases in Pakistan. He advised Islamabad, the “epicentre” of global terrorism, to “look itself in the mirror, stop preaching sermons in this forum, act to protect children within its own borders, and stop targeting women and children across its borders”.