Some never learn from their failures, and Pakistan is one such entity that thinks that by brazenly repeating a lie year after year it can give its incredulous Kashmir charade a semblance of legitimacy.

Furthermore, by making an unending string of palpably false allegations regarding Kashmir-related issues, it rightly invites New Delhi’s ridicule, but having become thick-skinned, it doesn’t seem to bother about regularly being humiliated at the annual UN General Assembly [UNGA] meet.

So, the 80th UNGA meet was, expectedly, no different.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif delivered a speech that was met with a forceful rebuttal from India. Laden with provocative rhetoric and contentious claims aimed to castigate India over the May 2025 military confrontation, commonly referred to as Operation Sindoor, Sharif’s address was a comic and hallucinatory account of unsubstantiated claims gleaned from dubious social media accounts.

Sharif’s exposition was so feeble that India’s First Secretary Petal Gahlot had no difficulty at all in demolishing the same with her hard-hitting and incisive retort that cleared the air and left no room for ambiguity.

Prime Minister Sharif’s speech was a crudely sewn tapestry of hollow rhetoric, wild allegations, and contrived historical grievances with frantic calls for international intervention. He accused India of “unprovoked aggression" during Operation Sindoor, concealing the fact that the Indian armed forces had initially only struck terrorist infrastructure and it was the Pakistan army that enlarged the scale of the conflict by targeting defence installations and civilians.

Sharif neither explained why senior Pakistan army officers participated in the funeral ceremony of terrorists killed in the Indian strike, nor assigned any reasons for holding military funerals for the deceased........

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