US assessment flags Pakistan’s advancing missile programme, ISIS-K activity and Taliban tensions as key risks shaping South Asia’s fragile security environment.
India told the UN Security Council that airstrikes on Afghanistan had killed 185 civilians and warned that blocking trade routes and rising instability could deepen the country’s humanitarian and economic crisis.
India accused Pakistan of spreading propaganda at the UNHRC, defended Jammu and Kashmir’s accession, and contrasted regional development with Islamabad’s economic challenges.
India told the UN Security Council that Operation Sindoor was a measured response to terrorism, rejected Pakistan’s claims, and said Islamabad has no standing on Kashmir.
India criticised Pakistan at the UN, accusing it of misusing self-determination to push false narratives on Kashmir during debates unrelated to the issue.
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India on Tuesday asked Pakistan to expedite the release and repatriation of 159 Indian fishermen and civilian prisoners who have completed their sentences.
New Delhi also asserted that any engagement between India and Pakistan has to be bilateral.
The delegations led by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, Bharatiya Janata Party MP Baijayant Panda, and Nationalist Congress Party(SP) MP Supriya Sule embarked for their respective destinations while the delegation led by BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad will leave later in the day.
Noting that India will deal with Pakistan purely bilaterally, External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on Friday asserted that India has zero tolerance for terrorism and it will never give in to "nuclear blackmail" from the neighbouring country.
