Overview

• At a June 26 UNSC debate on Children and Armed Conflict, Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish charged Pakistan with misusing the platform to deflect from its own human rights violations and state-backed terrorism.
• He cited the UN Secretary-General’s report documenting attacks on girls’ schools, health workers and Afghan children harmed by cross-border shelling from Pakistani forces.
• Harish recalled the April 22 Pahalgam attack that killed 26 Indian tourists and noted the UNSC’s April 25 press statement demanding accountability for those behind the massacre.
• The envoy described India’s May 7 Operation Sindoor as non-escalatory, proportionate strikes on nine terrorist infrastructure sites carried out in response to Pakistan-backed terror.
• He condemned Pakistani army shelling of Indian border villages in May and reiterated that Jammu and Kashmir remains an integral and inalienable part of India.