Look who’s talking, Pakistan is an export factory of terror: Sushma Swaraj at UNGA

BY : News Gateway / UN General Assembly / New Delhi / 

India on Saturday targeted Pakistan at the UN General Assembly for using terrorism as an instrument of state policy, describing the country as an “export factory of terror” that had spurned the hand of friendship extended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Addressing the General Assembly in New York, external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj listed terrorism as one of the main challenges facing the world community in the 21st century within minutes of beginning her speech.

Responding to Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi’s address in which he had accused India of state-sponsored terrorism and widespread human rights violations, Swaraj said, “Everyone who heard that speech said, ‘Look who’s talking’.”

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While India was engaged solely in efforts to develop itself, “Pakistan is only engaged in fighting us”, she added.

Modi, she said, had offered a hand of peace and friendship to Pakistan as soon as he took oath of office – a reference to the Indian premier’s decision to invite his Pakistani counterpart to his swearing-in ceremony in 2014.

“The Pakistan Prime Minister must answer why they spurned this hand of friendship,” Swaraj said.