India, Oct. 23 -- In a stinging reminder to Pakistan at the United Nations, India talked about the 1999 Kargil War, accusing Islamabad of refusing to accept the bodies of its own dead soldiers while the Indian Army buried them with military honours and full Islamic rites.

Hitting back at Pakistan's rhetoric on faith, religious freedom and burials, Indian diplomat Bhavika Mangalanandan on Friday called out the irony of a country preaching religious rights while failing to acknowledge its own soldiers in death.

"It is deeply ironic that a state that did not even accept the bodies of its own soldiers who were killed in combat in 1999 in Kargil, unabashedly speaks with a fervour on faith, religious freedom and burials. Let me remind them th...