Pakistan rejects UN Security Council remarks on inland navigation and terrorism, calling them a “vain attempt” to distort facts.

Pakistan on Thursday rejected Indian remarks at the United Nations Security Council on the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) and terrorism, calling them a “vain attempt” to distort facts, saying India’s statement was an attempt to cover up its alleged sponsorship and financing of terrorism against Pakistan.

The response follows remarks by India’s permanent representative to the UN, Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni, who accused Pakistan of “supporting cross-border terrorism” and said “the issue has affected bilateral cooperation on the TNI.”

In his right of reply to the Indian representative’s remarks during the Security Council debate, First Secretary Ansar Shah rejected India’s claims.

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“The Treaty does not contain any provision authorizing its so-called ‘suspension’. India’s unilateral action is simply illegal. The Court of Arbitration, in its August 2025 award, reaffirmed that the Treaty remains valid, binding and in full force and effect, along with its dispute resolution mechanisms,” Shah said.

He said that “India’s militarization of a shared natural resource for political coercion, with the stated aim of starving the people of Pakistan, constitutes a serious violation of international legal instruments and norms.”

“The situation poses a direct threat to regional and international peace and security and is highly relevant to today’s debate,” Shah said.

Responding to India’s allegations on terrorism, he said, “The baseless claim regarding terrorism is actually an effort by India to cover up its sponsorship and financing of terrorism against Pakistan.” India’s terrorist proxies, TTP, BLA and Majeed Brigade have killed thousands of civilians and law enforcement personnel, including women and children on our soil.

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“India’s involvement in extraterritorial killings, particularly in North America, is also well known. India is not a victim of terrorism. It is a sponsor of it,” Shah said.

“India is also a perpetrator of state terrorism, including in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir – whose population is being denied their right to self-determination in blatant violation of numerous Security Council resolutions,” Shah added.

According to Shah, “India continues to disregard its obligations under the UN Charter, including Article 25, which obliges member states to implement the decisions of the Security Council.”

“Jammu and Kashmir has never been an integral part of India, and has never been an integral part of India. No unilateral or illegal measures of the occupying power can alter the historical, legal and controversial character of the occupied territory of Jammu and Kashmir,” Shah said.

“India must fulfill all its legal obligations under international law, the UN Charter and Security Council resolutions – instead of violating them and denying established facts,” he concluded.

During the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) high-level open debate on “Natural Resource Governance: The Foundation for Peace, Security and Prosperity,” Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Asim Iftikhar, said the IWT “remains valid, binding and in full force and effect,” as reaffirmed by the August 2025 award of the Court of Arbitration.

He urged the United Nations Security Council to remain vigilant against the exploitation or militarization of natural resources and to make full use of preventive diplomacy, peaceful resolution of disputes, sanctions regimes and monitoring mechanisms when such actions endanger peace.