Pakistani Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif addressed the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Wednesday, and as expected, pointed fingers at India over its “brutalities” in Kashmir and extended Pakistan’s support to “the demand of the Kashmiri people for self-determination”. Sharif said that Pakistan had gone “the extra mile” in an effort to normalise relations with India. He also declared that “peace and normalisation between Pakistan and India cannot be achieved without a resolution of the Kashmir dispute”. The Pakistani PM made no mention of India’s accusations that Pakistan sponsors terror in the wake of the recent Uri attacks, which left 18 Indian soldiers dead.

Sharif hailed slain Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani as a “symbol of the latest Kashmiri Intifada [uprising]”, which he referred to as a “popular and peaceful freedom movement”. Sharif alleged that the struggle of the Kashmiri people had been met with “brutal repression” from Indian forces and that “Pakistan will share with the Secretary General a dossier containing detailed information and evidence of the gross and systematic violations of human rights committed by Indian forces in occupied Jammu and Kashmir”.

Vikas Swarup, spokesperson for the Minister of External Affairs, tweeted out in response to Sharif’s provocative speech, saying that lauding Wani signified Pakistan’s “attachment to terrorism”.

Swarup also hit back at Sharif for being in “complete denial of Uri terror attack”.

He reiterated that India’s only condition for dialogue between the two nations is an “end to terrorism”.

India also issued an official rebuttal to Sharif’s address, delivered at the UNGA by Eenam Gambhir, First Secretary, Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations.