India’s envoy to the United Nations (UN) reminded the world community on Wednesday of the prolonged presence of murdered al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan while dismissing Islamabad’s dossier on New Delhi’s alleged involvement in acts of terrorism. .
TS Tirumurti, India’s permanent representative to the UN, relayed the country’s position after his Pakistani counterpart, Munir Akram, presented a copy of the dossier to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday.
Tirumurti tweeted that Pakistan’s “file of lies” “has zero credibility.”
“Producing documents and selling false narratives is not new in Pakistan, which is home to the world’s largest number of UN-banned terrorists and entities,” he said.
“Remember Abbottabad!” Tirumurti added, in a reference to the Pakistani garrison city where bin Laden was killed in May 2011 by US special forces at a compound located a short distance from the country’s main training facility for military officers.
Earlier, Akram and the Pakistani mission to the UN tweeted about handing over the file to the UN secretary general. The mission said in a tweet that the file contained alleged “evidence of India’s systematic campaign to promote terrorism” and “active planning, aid, complicity, financing and execution of terrorist activities in Pakistan.”
Another tweet from the mission said Pakistan would “unmask the ecosystem” of terrorism from “ungoverned spaces on the other side of our border.”
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The dossier, released by Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Chief Military Spokesman Major General Babar Iftikhar earlier this month, has already been scrapped by India and Afghanistan.
India has long accused Pakistan of using terrorism as an instrument of state policy and of failing to prosecute Pakistan-based terrorists involved in carrying out attacks in Mumbai, Pathankot, Uri and Pulwama.
Pakistan’s file has also failed to find candidates in the international community. Islamabad, however, has been persisting in efforts to pick up the record in international forums in hopes of influencing the incoming administration in the United States headed by President-elect Joe Biden.
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