Pak’s GDP can only be measured in its exports in form of terrorism: India-Read

Warns the neighboring country that its “policy” of cross-border terrorism will never succeed and its “actions will certainly have consequences”

United Nations: India warned Pakistan that its “policy” of cross-border terrorism will never succeed and its “actions will certainly have consequences”.

“Many countries get left behind due to circumstances beyond their control, but some make conscious choices with disastrous consequences. A premier example is our neighbour, Pakistan,” External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said in his address to the General Debate of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly.

Hitting out strongly at Pakistan a day after the country’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif referred to Jammu and Kashmir in his UNGA address and a Right of Reply exercised by a Pakistan diplomat, Jaishankar told the UN General Assembly that Islamabad’s “misdeeds” affect others as well, especially the neighbourhood.

“When this polity instills such fanaticism among its people, its GDP can only be measured in terms of radicalisation and its exports in the form of terrorism,” he said. “Today we see the ills it sought to visit on others consume its own society. It can’t blame the world. This is only karma,” Jaishankar said in a strongly-worded condemnation of Pakistan.

He said that a dysfunctional nation coveting the lands of others must be exposed and must be countered. “We heard some bizarre assertions from it at this very forum yesterday. So let me make India’s position perfectly clear. Pakistan’s cross border terrorism policy will never succeed, and it can have no expectation of impunity. On the contrary, actions will certainly have consequences,” Jaishankar said.

“The issue to be resolved between us is now only the vacation of illegally occupied Indian territory by Pakistan, and, of course, the abandonment of Pakistan’s long standing attachment to terrorism,” he said. Jaishankar also said that terrorism is antithetical to everything that the world stands for.

“All its forms of and manifestations must be resolutely opposed. The sanctioning of global terrorists by the United Nations should also not be impeded for political reasons,” he said.

The remark comes against the backdrop of China, Pakistan’s all-weather ally, repeatedly placing holds on and blocking proposals submitted by India and its partners, such as the US, to designate Pakistan-based terrorists under the 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee of the Security Council.”