Overview

• Pakistan’s UN envoy Asif Khan dismissed India’s remarks as a recycled script of distortions and said Jammu and Kashmir remains an internationally recognised dispute.
• He argued the United Nations has a duty to address the issue and reiterated that the final status should be decided through a free and impartial plebiscite under UN auspices.
• Khan alleged one of the world’s densest military deployments in the territory with nearly 900,000 Indian troops and cited extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, mass detentions, sexual violence, and demographic engineering since 2019.
• He accused India of sponsoring terrorism by backing TTP, BLA, and the Majeed Brigade, labelled India the principal sponsor of state terrorism, and referenced claims of extraterritorial assassinations.
• Referencing earlier-year tensions, he said Pakistan acted in self-defence under Article 51 and claimed India suffered significant losses including multiple aircraft downed, as Pakistani outlets reported the remarks from the UN session.