“I’m taking the floor today to say that India chooses this time not to respond to Pakistan’s mischievious provocations. Our advice to the delegate of Pakistan is to refer to our numerous Rights of Reply that we have exercised in the past,” Counsellor in India’s Permanent Mission to the UN Pratik Mathur said.

While exercising India's Right to Reply, Mathur also said that Pakistan must look at its own track record "as a state that harbours and provides safe havens to terrorists and does so with impunity." The response came after?Pakistan’s envoy at the UN Munir Akram referred to?Jammu?and Kashmir while delivering the explanation of vote on the UN General Assembly resolution on Ukraine.?

This is not the first time that India has hit back at Pakistan for raising the Kashmir issue in UN. In December, India?asserted that a country that hosted slain al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and attacked a neighbouring Parliament does not have the credentials to “sermonize" in the power UN organ after Pakistan raised the Kashmir issue in the United Nations Security Council.

Earlier this month?as well, responding to Pakistan’s raising of the Kashmir issue during a UNGA?meeting, Counsellor in India’s Permanent Mission to the UN, Rajesh Parihar, said?that Islamabad repeatedly utters falsehoods about India. Parihar said that?irrespective of what the representative of Pakistan believes or covets, the Union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh were, are and will always be an “integral and inalienable” part of India.

Member countries had gathered for the?vote on the UN General Assembly resolution on Ukraine during the?Eleventh Emergency Special Session.?India abstained on a resolution that underscored the need to reach “comprehensive, just and lasting peace” in Ukraine, as New Delhi questioned whether the world was “anywhere near a possible solution” acceptable to both Moscow and Kyiv a year into the Ukrainian conflict.?

(With inputs from PTI)