Pakistan, May 22 -- A Pakistani diplomat Wednesday rejected Indian accusations about Pakistan allegedly killing Afghan civilians recently, saying it was in fact India which carried out state terrorism against Pakistan.

"India's state-sponsorship of terrorism against Pakistan is not abstract; it has a human cost," Saima Saleem, a counsellor at the Pakistan Mission to the UN, told the Security Council during a debate on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict.

The Pakistani delegate was exercising his right of reply to India's UN Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni, who also accused Pakistan of 'genocide' in 1971.

The Indian envoy was reacting to a statement made earlier in day by Pakistan's UN Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, who highli...