{"id":1264,"date":"2025-09-27T04:37:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T04:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2025-09-27T04:37:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T04:37:38","slug":"india-vs-pakistan-petal-gahlot-rebuts-shehbaz-sharifs-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/2025\/09\/27\/india-vs-pakistan-petal-gahlot-rebuts-shehbaz-sharifs-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"India vs Pakistan: Petal Gahlot Rebuts Shehbaz Sharif\u2019s Narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"9fece8afa224fd09e54b043d0febfb58\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- NR ATF -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8898941184964366\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"4839033563\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<h2><em>India Rebuts Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif\u2019s UNGA Remarks on Terrorism and Kashmir<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>India strongly countered <a href=\"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/2025\/09\/26\/trump-meets-shehbaz-sharif-asim-munir-us-pakistan-ties-warm\/\">Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif\u2019s address<\/a> at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), accusing him of once again glorifying terrorism and distorting facts. Exercising India\u2019s right of reply on Friday (local time), Petal Gahlot, First Secretary at India\u2019s Permanent Mission to the UN, issued a sharp rebuttal against Sharif\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n<p>During the General Debate of the 80th UNGA session, Sharif referred to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/2025\/05\/07\/operation-sindoor-25-minutes-of-indian-hellfire\/\">Operation Sindoor<\/a>\u201d and claimed that seven Indian jets were damaged during the four-day conflict in May. However, India\u2019s Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh had clarified earlier that Indian forces shot down five Pakistani fighter aircraft along with a large military plane during the operation.<\/p>\n<p>Petal Gahlot reminded the assembly of <a href=\"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/2025\/09\/26\/trump-meets-shehbaz-sharif-asim-munir-us-pakistan-ties-warm\/\">Pakistan\u2019s<\/a> record of shielding terror outfits. She highlighted how, on April 25, 2025, at the UN Security Council, Pakistan blocked accountability for <a href=\"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/2025\/05\/14\/operation-keller-the-new-mission-after-operation-sindoor\/\"><em>The Resistance Front<\/em><\/a>\u2014a Pakistan-backed terrorist group responsible for the brutal killing of tourists in Jammu and Kashmir. She further stressed that India\u2019s counter-terror operation launched on May 7 was in direct response to the Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Calling out Islamabad\u2019s duplicity, Gahlot said, <em>\u201cA country long steeped in the tradition of deploying and exporting terrorism has no shame in advancing the most ludicrous narratives to that end. It sheltered Osama bin Laden for a decade while pretending to fight terrorism, and its own ministers have admitted to running terrorist camps for decades. It comes as no surprise that this duplicity continues, this time from its Prime Minister.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Despite Sharif\u2019s claims that Pakistan condemns terrorism, he accused India of \u201c<strong>externally sponsoring<\/strong>\u201d militancy through groups like the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and the Balochistan Liberation Army. However, India has consistently maintained that Pakistan uses such narratives to deflect attention from its own role in supporting cross-border terrorism.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1055 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FEATURE-4-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Maldives, Indira Gandhi, Narendra Modi, Jawahar Lal Nehru\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FEATURE-4-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FEATURE-4-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FEATURE-4-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FEATURE-4.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In his speech, the Pakistani leader also praised former US President Donald Trump, claiming his peace efforts helped prevent escalation in South Asia. India, however, reiterated that the understanding on cessation of hostilities was reached independently through direct talks between the Directors General of Military <a href=\"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/2025\/05\/07\/operation-sindoor-25-minutes-of-indian-hellfire\/\">Operations of India and Pakistan,<\/a> without any third-party mediation.<\/p>\n<p>Sharif further raised concerns over India\u2019s suspension of the <a href=\"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/2025\/05\/10\/operation-bunyan-al-marsoos-pakistans-reply-to-indias-operation-sindoor\/\">Indus Waters Treaty after the Pahalgam terror attack<\/a>, labeling any violation of the agreement as an \u201cact of war.\u201d As in previous years, he once again brought up the Kashmir issue, calling for a UN-led plebiscite and asserting that Pakistan \u201cstands with the people of Kashmir.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>India has firmly rejected these repeated references, emphasizing that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India and that Pakistan has no locus standi on the matter. New Delhi has repeatedly urged the international community to hold Islamabad accountable for exporting terrorism while attempting to project itself as a victim.<\/p>\n<p>The sharp exchange at the UNGA underscores the <a href=\"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/2025\/05\/07\/operation-sindoor-25-minutes-of-indian-hellfire\/\">continuing tensions between India and Pakistan<\/a>, with terrorism and Kashmir remaining the central flashpoints in their diplomatic standoff.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India Rebuts Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif\u2019s UNGA Remarks on Terrorism and Kashmir India strongly countered Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif\u2019s address at the United Nations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[299],"tags":[216,256,257,557,556,558],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-india","tag-operation-sindoor","tag-pakistan","tag-petal-gahlot","tag-shehbaz-sharif","tag-unga","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1266,"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/1266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}