'No shame… Pakistan sheltered Osama bin Laden': India reminds Pak PM Sharif at UNGA
India criticised Pakistan's PM Shehbaz Sharif for glorifying terrorism during his UNGA speech, stating his claims distort facts.
Bharatiya Abroad | Edited by Staff Writer | Updated: September 27, 2025 6:42 am UTC
New Delhi: India hit out at Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif over his speech at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) where he claimed to have shot down seven Indian jets by saying that Islamabad is trying to glorify terrorism and distort facts.
Exercising India’s right of reply at the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) after Shehbaz Sharif’s address, first secretary in India’s Permanent Mission to the UN Petal Gahlot on launched a sharp rebuttal.
Gahlot said, “This assembly witnessed absurd theatrics in the morning from the Prime Minister of Pakistan, who once again glorified terrorism that is so central to their foreign policy. However, no degree of drama and no level of lies can conceal the facts.”
In his address to the General Debate of the UNGA, Sharif on Friday referred to the 'Operation Sindoor' and claimed that "seven of the Indian jets" were damaged during the four-day conflict in May.
Meanwhile, Indian Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh last month said Indian jets shot down five Pakistani fighter jets and a large aircraft during 'Operation Sindoor'.
Gahlot then reminded the assembly that at the UN Security Council on April 25, 2025, Pakistan shielded “The Resistance Front – a Pakistani-sponsored terror outfit” from responsibility for the “barbaric massacre of tourists in the Indian Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.”
India had targeted nine terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir during the operation launched on May 7 in retaliation for the Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 people in April this year.
“A picture speaks a thousand words, and we saw many pictures of terrorists slain in Bahawalpur and Muridke terror complexes by Indian forces during Operation Sindoor. When senior Pakistani military and civilian officials publicly glorify and pay homage to such notorious terrorists, can there be any doubt about the proclivities of this regime? The Prime Minister of Pakistan also advanced a bizarre account of the recent conflict with India. The record on this matter is clear. Till 9th May, Pakistan was threatening more attacks on India. But on 10th May, the military pleaded with us directly for a cessation to the fighting,” she said.
She also said that "a country long steeped in the tradition of deploying and exporting terrorism has no shame in advancing the most ludicrous narratives to that end".
"Let us recall that it sheltered Osama bin Laden for a decade, even while pretending to partner in the war against terrorism, its ministers have just recently acknowledged that they have been operating terrorist camps for decades. It should come as no surprise that once again this duplicity continues, this time at the level of its Prime Minister.”
India has been consistently maintaining that the understanding on cessation of hostilities with Pakistan was reached following direct talks between the Directors General of Military Operations of the two militaries.