India Condemns Pakistan Over Kashmir Unrest and UN Politicization

The Ministry of External Affairs of India rejected allegations from Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif, who claimed New Delhi was linked to ongoing unrest in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal dismissed these claims as fabricated attempts to mask Pakistan's own human rights abuses and systemic economic exploitation. India reported that Pakistan responded to the protests, led by the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC), with police brutality, internet blackouts, and lethal force, resulting in dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries.

Simultaneously, tensions rose over water security after Khawaja Asif threatened that Pakistan would go to war if its water security were compromised. India has placed the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance following a cross-border terrorist strike in Pahalgam last year, maintaining the suspension until Pakistan dismantles its terrorism infrastructure.

On June 24, 2026, the diplomatic conflict moved to the United Nations in New York. During an informal Arria-formula meeting of the Security Council, India's Permanent Representative Parvathaneni Harish accused Pakistan of misusing its co-chair position to politicize the forum by raising the Kashmir issue. Harish asserted that Jammu and Kashmir is a strictly internal matter for India and called for a review of outdated UN Security Council mediation frameworks. A report by the International Centre for Peace Studies further detailed the crisis in PoK, citing over 70 civilian deaths and accusing the Pakistani military of disrupting essential supplies as a form of collective punishment.