India counters Pakistan at UN, rejects bid to 'internationalise' Kashmir issue

📌 Summary:

• India issued a strong rebuttal after Pakistan raised the Jammu and Kashmir issue at a UN General Assembly session, telling Islamabad not to use the UN for "biased and false narratives"
• India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish, reiterated that J&K "was, is and will always remain an integral and inalienable part of India"
• Harish objected to Pakistan attempting to internationalise an issue "strictly internal to India" and accused it of misusing UN platforms, including misleading communications while on the UN Security Council
• He said being a UNSC member is a "huge responsibility," not a forum for peddling false narratives; Pakistan's claims are "baseless, devoid of merit and inconsistent with historical facts"
• The statement came as Harish received the Dag Hammarskjold Medal on behalf of fallen Indian peacekeepers from UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the International Day of UN Peacekeepers

🎯 UPSC Relevance: GS2 (India-Pakistan relations, India at multilateral forums/UN, bilateral nature of the Kashmir issue, diplomacy)

📝 Prelims Facts:

• Parvathaneni Harish is India's Permanent Representative to the UN
• Dag Hammarskjold Medal honours UN peacekeepers who lost their lives in service
• International Day of UN Peacekeepers is observed on May 29; UNSC = UN Security Council

🔑 Key Term: Internationalisation (of a dispute) — efforts to bring a bilateral/internal matter before international forums; India holds Kashmir to be strictly bilateral/internal.