India Slams Pakistan at UNHRC, Calls It a “Failed State” Trafficking in Terror and Propaganda

Geneva, Thursday:Indian diplomat Kshitij Tyagi delivered a forceful rebuttal to Pakistan at the 5th Meeting of the 60th Session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), branding Islamabad a “failed state” sustained by propaganda and terrorism.

Responding to Pakistan’s remarks, Tyagi declared: “Our measured and proportionate response to the Pahalgam attack made that sufficiently clear. We need no lessons from a terror sponsor, no sermons from a persecutor of minorities, no advice from a state that has conjured its own credibility. India will continue to protect its citizens with unwavering resolve, defend its sovereignty without compromise, and expose time and again the elaborate deception of a failed state whose survival depends upon trafficking in terror and tragedy.”

In a separate intervention during the same session, Tyagi took a sharper swipe at Islamabad, noting: “We are compelled once again to address provocations from a country whose own leadership recently likened it to a dump truck—perhaps an inadvertently apt metaphor for a state that continues to deposit recycled falsehoods and stale propaganda before this distinguished council. Pakistan’s systematic abuse of this forum, coupled with its routine manipulation of the OIC as its mouthpiece, has become a familiar pattern. Its pathological fixation on India appears to provide it with existential validation.”

This is not the first time Tyagi has issued such a fiery rejoinder at the UN. Earlier, at the 58th Regular Session of the UNHRC in February, he had condemned Pakistan as a “failed state” surviving on “international handouts.”

At that time, he criticized Islamabad’s delegation for “dutifully spreading falsehoods handed down by its military-terrorist complex” and described Pakistan’s repeated attempts to raise Jammu and Kashmir in multilateral forums as “baseless and malicious.” He also accused Islamabad of “making a mockery” of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) by misusing it as a political tool.

Reaffirming India’s position, Tyagi stressed that Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are integral and inalienable parts of India. “The unprecedented political, social, and economic progress in J&K in recent years speaks for itself. These successes are a testament to the people’s trust in the government’s commitment to bring normalcy to a region scarred by decades of Pakistan-sponsored terrorism,” he said.