At the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), India's First Secretary to the UN, Bhavika Mangalanandan, delivered a powerful rebuttal to Pakistan, condemning its long-standing support of cross-border terrorism. This response followed Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's speech, in which he raised the Jammu and Kashmir issue and called for dialogue between the two nations.

India's firm stance highlighted Pakistan’s role in global terrorism, with Mangalanandan accusing the country of using terrorism as a state policy. Referring to past terrorist attacks, such as the 2001 Indian Parliament attack and the 2008 Mumbai attacks, she emphasized that Pakistan's fingerprints are evident in multiple global terrorist incidents. Mangalanandan criticized Pakistan’s audacity in targeting the world’s largest democracy, despite its international reputation for terrorism, narcotics trade, and transnational crime.

In response to Sharif’s call for India to reverse its 2019 abrogation of Article 370, which revoked Jammu and Kashmir's special status, India reiterated that discussions of peace with Pakistan are meaningless without the eradication of terrorism. "There can be no compact with terrorism," Mangalanandan stated, firmly rejecting any notion of a "Strategic Restraint Regime" with Pakistan until terrorism is eliminated.

Mangalanandan also referenced Pakistan’s infamous past, such as its harboring of Osama bin Laden and its interference in Jammu and Kashmir, aimed at destabilizing the region's democratic process. Furthermore, she pointed out Pakistan's internal issues, highlighting human rights abuses, the 1971 genocide in Bangladesh, and its persecution of minorities.

Pakistan responded with a Right of Reply, dismissing India's claims as "baseless and misleading," and reaffirmed its call for a referendum in Jammu and Kashmir as per UN Security Council resolutions.

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