Pakistan rejects India’s UN Security Council statements on IWT, terrorism as ‘futile attempt’ to distort facts

Pakistan on Thursday dismissed Indian remarks in the UN Security Council on the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) and terrorism as a ‘futile attempt’ to distort facts and said India’s statement was an attempt to hide its alleged sponsorship and financing of terrorism against Pakistan.

The response followed remarks by India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni, who accused Pakistan of “supporting cross-border terrorism” and said “the issue had affected bilateral cooperation on the IWT.”

In a right of reply to remarks by the Indian representative at the Security Council debate, First Secretary Ansar Shah rejected India’s claims.

According to a statement issued on X, Shah said: “Pakistan is forced to take the floor again to respond to India’s misleading statement, which is a futile attempt to distort the facts and misrepresent the situation”.

“The treaty does not contain any provision whatsoever allowing its so-called ‘stay’. India’s unilateral action is simply illegal. The arbitral tribunal confirmed in its August 2025 award that the treaty remains valid, binding and in full force, along with its dispute settlement mechanisms,” Shah said.

He said that “India’s weaponization of a common natural resource for political coercion, with the stated aim of starving the people of Pakistan, is a serious violation of legal instruments and international norms.”

“The situation poses a direct threat to regional and international peace and security and is entirely relevant to today’s debate,” Shah said.

Reacting to India’s allegations of terrorism, he said, “The baseless allegation of terrorism is actually an attempt by India to hide its sponsorship and financing of terrorism against Pakistan. India’s terrorist proxies, TTP, BLA and Majeed Brigade have killed thousands of civilians and law enforcement personnel, including women and children on our soil”.

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“India’s involvement in extraterritorial executions, including in North America, is also well known. India is not a victim of terrorism. It is a sponsor of terrorism,” Shah said.

“India is also a perpetrator of state terrorism, including in India’s illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir – whose people are being denied their right to self-determination in gross violation of several Security Council resolutions,” Shah added.

According to the Shah, “India continues to flout its obligations under the UN Charter, including Article 25, which requires member states to implement Security Council resolutions”.

“Jammu and Kashmir has never been and is not an integral part of India. No unilateral or illegal action by the occupying power can change the historical, legal and disputed nature of the occupied territory of Jammu and Kashmir,” Shah said.

“India must fulfill all its legal obligations under international law, the UN Charter and Security Council resolutions – instead of violating them and denying established facts,” he concluded.

Speaking at the United Nations Security Council’s (UNSC) high-level open debate on “Natural Resource Governance: Foundation of Peace, Security and Prosperity”, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Asim Iftikhar, said the IWT “remains valid, binding and fully in force”, as confirmed by the Arbitral Tribunal on 2 August.

He called on the UN Security Council to remain vigilant against the exploitation or weaponization of natural resources and to make full use of preventive diplomacy, peaceful dispute resolution, sanctions regimes and monitoring mechanisms where such actions endanger peace.