Arguments by serial practitioner of terrorism will not stand: EAM Jaishankar slams Pakistan at UNGA

India strongly hit back at Pakistan in the UN General Assembly on Saturday (September 26, 2026), asserting that arguments by the “serial practitioner of terrorism” to normalise the scourge and claim immunity from its consequences will not stand.

“Yesterday, a serial practitioner of terrorism misrepresented facts before this Assembly,” External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said in his address to the General Debate at the high-level 81st session of the UN General Assembly.

Without naming Pakistan or the address by its Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif at the UN on Friday (September 25, 2026), Mr. Jaishankar said arguments were invoked to "normalise terrorism, and claim immunity from its consequences."

“Our right to defend ourselves against terrorism will be exercised,” Mr. Jaishankar said, asserting that “friendship and goodwill cannot co-exist with terrorism".