India, Sept. 28 -- At the UN General Assembly, Jaishankar rejects Pakistan's framing of terrorism and self-defence charges while Sharif revisits Kashmir, Indus waters and Trump's role

At the 81st UN General Assembly, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar delivered India's sharpest riposte yet to Pakistan, calling it a "serial practitioner of terrorism" without naming it directly. The target was unmistakable: a day earlier, PM Shehbaz Sharif had told the same assembly that Pakistan's response to Operation Sindoor was an exercise of its "inherent right of self-defence," credited Donald Trump for a "timely intervention" in the 2025 conflict, and revived Kashmir and the Indus Waters Treaty. Jaishankar's reply was blunt: arguments invoked to...