NEW DELHI: Pakistan is a 'terrorist state'+ , the 'Ivy League of terrorism', a country with a 'democracy deficit' that 'practices terrorism on its own people' and a country that indulges in a 'war crime'. This parsed sentence was the essence of India's brutal smackdown of Pakistan and the speech of its Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at the United Nations General Assembly+ (UNGA) in the early hours of Thursday.
India exercised its right of reply+ on the floor of the UNGA, to respond to what it called the 'hypocritical sermons' by Nawaz Sharif+ . "The worst violation of human rights is terrorism. When practiced as an instrument of state policy it is a war crime. What my country and our other neighbours are facing today is Pakistan's long-standing policy of sponsoring terrorism.
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