Describing Pakistan as a “puppet” regime, India has criticised the country’s “falsehoods” and “deceit” at the UN, warning that continued terrorism by Islamabad will have consequences.
Their puppets may come and go but let us have no illusion who calls the shots. The reality of Pakistan is expressed in its 27th Amendment and the lifelong immunity granted to its real ruler,” Ms. India exercised its Right of Reply on Friday (September 25, 2026) night, after Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif used the UN General Assembly (UNGA) podium to credit U.S.
Because this is a regime of the army, by the army, and for the army, “And that… is happening.
President Donald Trump for his “timely intervention” in the 2025 conflict with India, and again raised the Kashmir issue in his address to the world body. Petal Gahlot, First Secretary in the Permanent Mission of India to the UN, said, “We heard some hypocritical homilies about democratic rights and human values from a regime whose capital at this very moment is being fortified against its own people. Gahlot said.
“We are confident that this Assembly will recognise Pakistan and its policies for what they really are; not what its representative mendaciously projects it to be. Reiterating falsehoods year after year does not make them true. India reminded the UNGA that Mr. Criticising Mr. Sharif for raising the Kashmir issue, Ms. “And will always remain so. But if we must talk about Kashmir, let us turn our attention to Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Ask the people of Rawalakot about the wanton killings, the brutal violence and the denial of basic rights that they have long experienced,” she added.
She was referring to the 27th Constitutional Amendment, passed in November 2025 by the Sharif government, which grants Pakistan’s Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of the Army Staff, Field Marshal Asim Munir, lifelong immunity from legal prosecution.
Pakistan’s terrorism, deceit and duplicity will neither benefit it nor the world,” she said. Sharif’s “bizarre remarks” came just a fortnight after New York City and the world marked the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. “This context… is important to keep in mind because its mastermind, Osama bin Laden, was living right on the doorstep of the Pakistani Army’s premier academy,” Ms. Gahlot said. Gahlot said the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir was an integral and inalienable part of the country. Criticising Pakistan for its “long-standing practice” of cross-border terrorism, Ms. Gahlot said India had demonstrated last year that “terrorists will have nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.”
