India made IITs, IIMs, Pakistan made LeT, Hizb: Top quotes from Sushma Swaraj's speech at UN General Assembly

Swaraj's address was a withering riposte to the one made earlier this week by Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi.

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Sushma Swaraj at UNGA

New Delhi,UPDATED: Sep 23, 2017 23:29 IST

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today lambasted the Pakistani government over its covert support for terrorism, in a speech to the UN General Assembly (UNGA) that Prime Minister Narendra Modi called "incredible."

Swaraj's address was a withering riposte to the one made earlier this week by Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi.

We've broken down the speech into ten key quotes for you. If you want our full report, click here . To watch the video of the full speech, click here . And to read about everything PM Modi had to say about Sushma Swaraj's speech, click here.

TOP 10 QUOTES

On Thursday, from this dais, Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahid Khakan Abbasi wasted rather too much of his speech in making accusations against us. He accused India of State-sponsored terrorism, and of violating human rights. Those listening had only one observation: "Look who's talking!"
A country that has been the world's greatest exporter of havoc, death and inhumanity became a champion of hypocrisy by preaching about humanity from this podium.
Pakistan's Prime Minister claimed that his nation's founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah had bequeathed a foreign policy based on peace and friendship. I would like to remind him that while it remains open to question whether Jinnah Sahab actually advocated such principles, what is beyond doubt is that India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has, from the moment he took his oath of office, offered the hand of peace, and friendship. Pakistan's Prime Minister must answer why his nation spurned this offer.
India and Pakistan became free within hours of each other. Why is that today India is a recognised IT superpower in the world, and Pakistan is recognised only as the pre-eminent export factory of terror?
We have IITs, IIMs and AIIMS, but Pakistan created LeT, JeM and Hizbul Mujahideen.
Evil is evil. Let us accept that terrorism is an existential danger to mankind.
India has risen despite being the principal destination of Pakistan's nefarious export of terrorism. There have been many governments under many parties during 70 years of Indian freedom, for we have been a sustained democracy.
But what has Pakistan offered to the world and indeed to its own people apart from terrorism? We produced scholars, doctors, engineers. What have you produced? You have produced terrorists. Doctors save people from death; terrorists send them to death. If Pakistan had spent on its development what it has spent on developing terror, both Pakistan and the world would be safer and better-off today.
Through you, with utmost sincerity I would like to request this august assembly to stop seeing this evil with self-defeating and indeed meaningless nuance. Evil is evil. Let us accept that terrorism is an existentialist danger to humankind. There is absolutely no justification for this barbaric violence. Let us display our new commitment by reaching agreement on the Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism this year itself.
I had identified climate change as one of the significant dangers to our existence. India has already said that it is deeply committed to the Paris Accord. This is not because we are afraid of any power, influenced by friend or foe, or tempted by some imagined greed. This is an outcome of a philosophy that is at least 5000 years old. Our Prime Minister has, on his personal initiative, launched the International Solar Alliance as witness to our abiding commitment to a cause.