Pakistan PM's threat of N-devastation is brinksmanship: India

Strongly hitting back at Pakistan PM Imran Khan's rant at the UN General Assembly, First Secretary in India's Permanent Mission to the UN Vidisha Maitra said that Pakistan PM Imran Khan's threat of unleashing nuclear devastation qualifies as "brinksmanship and not statesmanship".

"Even coming from the leader of a country that has monopolised the entire value chain of the industry of terrorism, PM Khan's justification of terrorism was brazen and incendiary," she said.

Maitra added that after having "mainstreamed terrorism and hate speech," Pakistan is trying to play its wild card as the new found champion of human rights.

In his address, Khan invited UN Observers to Pakistan to verify that there are no militant organisations in Pakistan. Maitra said the world will hold him to that promise. She said a few questions that Pakistan can respond to as a precursor to the proposed verification, is that would Khan “deny to the city of New York that he was an open defender of Osama bin Laden? "Can Pakistan confirm the fact that it is home to 130 UN designated terrorists and 25 terrorist entities listed by the UN, as of today? "Will Pakistan acknowledge that it is the only Government in the world that provides pension to an individual listed by the UN in the Al Qaeda and Da'esh Sanctions list! "Can Pakistan explain why here in New York, its premier bank, the Habib Bank had to shut shop after it was fined millions of dollars over terror financing? Asserting that while Pakistan has ventured to upstream terrorism and downstream hate speech there, India is going ahead with mainstreaming development in Jammu and Kashmir.