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- India exercised its Right of Reply at the UN General Assembly on the night of September 25, 2026, after Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif used his ~23-minute address to thank President Donald Trump for his 'timely intervention' in the 2025 conflict and to raise the Kashmir issue.
- Petal Gahlot, First Secretary in India's Permanent Mission to the UN, called Pakistan a 'puppet' regime, citing the 27th Constitutional Amendment passed in November 2025 that grants lifelong immunity from prosecution to Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir.
- Gahlot linked Sharif's Kashmir remarks to the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, noting that 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden 'was living right on the doorstep of the Pakistani Army's premier academy.'
- India invoked Operation Sindoor of May 7, 2025 — launched in retaliation for the April 22, 2025 Pahalgam attack that killed 26 civilians — to assert it had demonstrated 'terrorists will have nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.'
- Gahlot warned that continued Pakistani terrorism 'will understandably call into question what were premised on friendship and goodwill,' and raised alleged crackdowns and electoral rigging in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, urging the assembly to ask residents of Rawalakot about 'wanton killings.'
- India accused Pakistan of hypocrisy on religious intolerance, pointing to blasphemy laws and minority treatment, with Gahlot saying 'no pious platitude can mislead' the world.
Why it matters: India's warning that terrorism 'will have consequences' is a direct diplomatic signal that New Delhi is prepared to revisit the May 2025 truce framework — and by invoking the 27th Amendment and Field Marshal Munir's lifelong immunity, India is publicly identifying Pakistan's military, not its elected government, as the decision-maker it holds responsible.
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