Sushma tears into Sharif's doublespeak: Stop dreaming about Kashmir

A week after Nawaz Sharif's speech glorified Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani at the UN, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today delivered an address at the UN General Assembly in New York.

The foreign affairs minister's speech comes two days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's emphatic statements condemning Pakistan at a public rally in Kozhikode, Kerala.

Sharif on 71st Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York asserted that foreign forces were trying to destabilise Pakistan.

He raked up the Kashmir issue and said that peace between India and Pakistan is not possible without resolution of the 'Kashmir issue.'

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Sharif accused India of putting "unacceptable" conditions on dialogue with Pakistan and said the world would ignore the dangers of rising tensions in South Asia at its own peril.

Here is what Sushma Swaraj said:

- Jammu and Kashmir belongs to India, stop dreaming about claiming Kashmir.

- I have been to Islamabad, we had a bilateral dialogue and PM Modi visited Kabul on his way, we approached them with friendship.

- Those criticising India for violating human rights, should first work on their own shortcomings.

- Nations perpetuating acts of terror should not have any place in the global community.

- We will have to keep aside obligations and differences and work together to fight terrorism.

- We cannot win the war on terrorism with blame game.

- Terror strikes across the world is a reminder of where we fall short in countering terrorism.

- We understand New York's pain because of terror attacks. We too have faced condemnable attacks this month.

- Terrorism is the biggest violation of human rights.

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- India will submit its ratification before the Paris Agreement on October 2.

- Evoked yoga and thanked international community for supporting it for the last two years.

- These initiatives have propelled India as one of the fastest growing nations.

- Digital India, several schemes launched to make Indian youth employable.

- We have been working towards initiatives directed towards sanitation, gender equality, women's welfare and girl's education.

- In the last two years, we have successfully worked on 17 programs initiated by the UN.

- A year ago addressed the international community, a lot of changes have taken ever since.

- We need to analyse what we have done and what more needs to be done.

Stage set for India.
EAM @SushmaSwaraj arrives at UN for her address to 71st #UNGA session pic.twitter.com/GO9Gwg0DRV Vikas Swarup (@MEAIndia) September 26, 2016

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