India Brands Pakistan 'Puppet' Army Regime at UNGA — SkimNews
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- India exercised its Right of Reply at the UN General Assembly on September 25, 2026, after Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif used the UNGA podium to thank U.S. President Donald Trump for his "timely intervention" in the 2025 India-Pakistan conflict and to raise the Kashmir issue.
- Petal Gahlot, First Secretary in India's Permanent Mission to the UN, called Pakistan a "puppet regime" run by the army, referencing the 27th Constitutional Amendment passed in November 2025 that grants lifelong immunity from prosecution to Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir.
- India explicitly linked Sharif's UNGA remarks to the recent 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, stating that 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden "was living right on the doorstep of the Pakistani Army's premier academy."
- India pointed to protests and alleged security-force crackdowns in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir over 12 controversial refugee seats, urging the assembly to "ask the people of Rawalakot about the wanton killings" there.
- India invoked Operation Sindoor, launched May 7, 2025, against terror infrastructure in Pakistan and PoK in retaliation for the April 22, 2025 Pahalgam attack that killed 26 civilians, declaring "continued terrorism by Pakistan will have consequences."
Why it matters: India's rebuke deliberately named Field Marshal Asim Munir's constitutional immunity and invoked the 9/11–Bin Laden connection on the world stage, publicly delegitimizing the Sharif government rather than merely disputing its claims. The "consequences" warning signals New Delhi is reserving the right to repeat an Operation Sindoor–style military response to any new terror strike.
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