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United Nations – Indian Foreign Minister on Saturday accused neighboring Pakistan of harboring terrorists in angry speech to the UN General Assembly and rejected the idea that India was sabotaging peace talks with Pakistan, calling them "an absolute lie".
A few hours later, Pakistan retaliated in its own speech accusing India of funding terrorists and declaring that New Delhi "preferred politics to peace".
Sushma Swaraj, from India, pointed out that Osama Bin Laden was living quietly in Pakistan before being found and killed by a team of the US Navy SEALs, and said that the brain from the Mumbai attack in 2008 the streets of Pakistan with impunity ". Pakistan said that there was not enough evidence to stop it.
"In our case, terrorism is high not in distant lands, but across our border to the west," Swaraj said. "Our neighbor's expertise is not limited to spawning areas of terrorism, but is also an expert in the attempt to mask malevolence by verbal duplicity."
Swaraj and Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi were scheduled to meet on the sidelines of the US General Assembly this week. India only called the day after its announcement, following the assassination of an Indian border guard in the disputed Kashmir region.
The two South Asian countries, neighbors still uncomfortable, find themselves in particularly tense conditions in this region to a "line of control" that crosses a rugged mountain range.
The announcement of the planned meeting was seen as an encouraging sign for the resumption of stalled negotiations between nuclear-armed neighbors.
New Delhi had agreed to hold the meeting in response to a letter from the newly elected Pakistani Prime Minister, Imran Khan, who had written to his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, stressing the need for a positive change, a mutual desire for peace and a willingness to discuss terrorism. .
"We accepted the proposal," said Swaraj. "But a few hours after our acceptance, it appeared that terrorists had killed one of our jawans. Does this indicate a desire for dialogue?
Qureshi said it was the third time that the current Indian administration had canceled talks, "each time on fragile bases".
In his speech, he declared that "Pakistan continues to face terrorism financed, facilitated and orchestrated by our eastern neighbor". He spoke of extremist attacks in his home country, including one at a military school in Peshawar, northwest in 2014. killed more than 150 children, who he said were perpetrated by "terrorists backed by # 39; India. "
In the afternoon, Qureshi's speech sparked a strong response from India who exercised its right of reply at the end of the meeting and accused Pakistan of broadcasting fake allegations and false facts. an instrument of state policy. "
Since the independence of Britain in 1947, Pakistan and India have fought two of their three wars against Kashmir, divided between the two countries but sought by each in its entirety.
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