Tribune News Service

New Delhi, June 26

India has lashed out at Pakistan in the United Nations General Assembly in New York as well as the Human Rights Council in Geneva.Snubbing Pakistani Ambassador to UN Maleeha Lodhi’s reference last week to J&K in context of a recent report by the UN Human rights body, India said the report was a ‘motivated piece of disinformation’.Sandeep Kumar Bayyapu, First Secretary in India’s Permanent Mission to the UN, said: “Jammu and Kashmir is an integral and inalienable part of India and no amount of empty rhetoric from Pakistan will change this reality.”India was exercising its right of reply during a general debate on responsibility to Protect and the Prevention of Genocide, War Crimes, Ethnic Cleansing and Crimes against Humanity.Pakistan earlier this month had welcomed the proposal of the UN High Commissioner Zeid for an international probe into allegations of human rights in both sides of Kashmir. Islamabad also claimed that reference of abuse in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir the report should in no way be construed to create a “false sense of equivalence” with Kashmir. Meanwhile, exercising its right of reply at the 38th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Second Secretary Animesh Choudhary said: “What is portrayed by Pakistan as a right to self-determination is actually state-sponsored cross border terrorism.”