Overview
- India’s UN envoy Parvathaneni Harish dismissed Pakistan’s remarks on Kashmir as a “delusional tirade” and accused Islamabad of “bombing its own people.”
- He invoked Pakistan’s 1971 Operation Searchlight, alleging a state‑sanctioned campaign of genocidal mass rape of 400,000 women.
- Pakistan’s counsellor Saima Saleem urged the Council to reflect alleged sexual violence against Kashmiri women in its reporting, citing OHCHR and major NGOs.
- India asserted an “unblemished” record on the Women, Peace and Security agenda and highlighted longstanding UN peacekeeping contributions, including the first all‑female Formed Police Unit in 2007.
- Reporting linked Harish’s “bombs its own people” remark to a recent Pakistani airstrike in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that killed more than 30 people, and the exchange continued a recurrent pattern of UN-level sparring without immediate policy shifts.