Overview
- At the UN Security Council open debate on protection of civilians on Wednesday, India sharply rebutted Pakistan after Islamabad raised Jammu and Kashmir and cited UNAMA reports attributing recent Afghan civilian harm to Pakistani forces.
- India cited United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan figures that it said show about 750 civilian deaths and injuries in early 2026, more than 94,000 people displaced, and an alleged March airstrike on Kabul’s Omid Addiction Treatment Hospital that UNAMA attributed to Pakistan and said killed 269 civilians and wounded 122.
- Pakistan’s delegation rejected the charges in a right of reply, accused India of exporting terrorism and rights abuses, and described India’s speech as a politicized effort to evade scrutiny of its own record.
- The exchange took place within the UNSC’s consultative annual debate, which frames norms and urges action but does not itself assign legal responsibility or impose binding measures against states.
- India said the intervention was meant to advance concrete protections for civilians, medical facilities, humanitarian access and controls on emerging military technologies, a stance that could shape international pressure and possible future council actions or investigations.