India Rebukes Pakistan at UN Over Kashmir and Water Treaty

During the 62nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on June 19, 2026, Anupama Singh, First Secretary at the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations, exercised India's right of reply to reject allegations made by Pakistan and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation regarding Jammu and Kashmir. Singh asserted that the region is an integral and inalienable part of India, claiming the only unresolved issue is Pakistan's illegal occupation of Indian territories.

Singh characterized Pakistan as a "Frankenstein state" that utilizes terrorism as an instrument of state policy. To illustrate military repression in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, she cited a June 14 security operation in Rawalakot where the Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee reported at least two deaths and multiple injuries during a sit-in.

Diplomatic tensions extended to the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, which Singh described as outdated and not a perpetual entitlement for a state exporting terror. India has held the treaty in abeyance since April 2025 following a terror attack in Pahalgam that killed 26 people. Simultaneously, Pakistan's Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar and Permanent Representative Asim Iftikhar Ahmad urged the UN Security Council to intervene, alleging that Indian projects on the Chenab River threaten Pakistan's water and food security. The Pakistani Foreign Office termed statements from India's Water Resources Minister CR Patil regarding the diversion of water as an act of war.