India on Tuesday hit back at Pakistan in the UN Security Council after Islamabad raised the Kashmir issue.
India's Permanent Mission to the UN Kajal Bhat lashed out at Pakistan for "misusing" the UN platform to propagate false and malicious propaganda against India.
She said that Islamabad's representative was seeking "to divert the world's attention from the sad state of his country where terrorists enjoy a free pass while the lives of ordinary people and minorities are turned upside down".
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Bhat, who hails from Jammu and Kashmir, said in her remarks that UN member states are aware that Pakistan has an "established history and policy" of harbouring, aiding and actively supporting terrorists.
"This is a country which has been globally recognised as one openly supporting, training, financing and arming terrorists as a matter of state policy. It holds the ignoble record of hosting the largest number of terrorists proscribed by the UN Security Council."
Categorically stating India's position, she said the entire union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh were, are and will always be an integral and inalienable part of India. "This includes the areas that are under the illegal occupation of Pakistan."