Pakistan found no support from UNGA united against terrorism: Akbaruddin

Pakistani Prime Minister left from United Nations General Assembly with an empty bag, they got no support, whilst there is a crescendo of support against terrorism at in the international community, according to a senior Indian diplomat at the United Nations. 

Indian representative at United Nations Syed Akbaruddin on Friday said what is finding resonance among the international community is the terror threat that India is facing and not what Sharif said in his speech.

“Of the 131 nations which have spoken in the General Debate so far, 130 have not referred to the primary issue that Pakistan has raised. So what does that mean?” he asked, adding that India is gratified by the support it is getting with countries increasingly standing up and voicing their support to deal with the menace of terrorism.

Addressing a press conference along with MEA spokesperson Vikas Swarup, Akbaruddin said that External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will travel to New York on Saturday and will address the UNGA on September 26.

Following a sustained diplomatic campaign, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif spoke extensively on Wednesday at the Assembly on Kashmir. 

He appealed for UN and international intervention in the state, a part of which is occupied by his country. In a bid to internationalise it, he called the Kashmir protests as an "intifada," the Arab term used for the Palestinian uprising, but gained no traction. 

He faced a pithy, three-minute rebuttal by a junior diplomat, Eenam Gambhir who raised the possibility that Pakistan may be guilty of war crimes for sponsoring terrorism as an instrument of state policy and ridiculed that country as the host of an "Ivy League" institution for terrorism education.