Young Diplomats, Sharp Replies: India's Tradition In Rebuttals To Pak At UN

Sneha Dubey delivered India's strong Right of Reply on Friday from the UN General Assembly hall

First Secretary Sneha Dubey gave a blistering retort to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan in the UN General Assembly after he raked up the Kashmir issue in his address to the high-level session, continuing with a tradition of India's young diplomats taking on Pakistani leaders at the annual event.

Ms Dubey delivered India's strong Right of Reply on Friday from the UNGA hall, carrying on with a tradition seen over the past few years of young Indian diplomats taking on Pakistani leaders and strongly responding to their rants over Jammu and Kashmir and other internal matters of India.

"We exercise our Right of Reply to one more attempt by the leader of Pakistan to tarnish the image of this august Forum by bringing in matters internal to my country, and going so far as to spew falsehoods on the world stage," Ms Dubey said in the UN General Assembly.

"While such statements deserve our collective contempt and sympathy for the mindset of the person who utters falsehood repeatedly, I am taking the floor to set the record straight," the young Indian diplomat said, slamming the 68-year-old cricketer-turned politician for raking up the Kashmir issue in his video address to the 76th session of the UN General Assembly.