India Is Surging Economy, Pakistan Is Serial Borrower: New Delhi Slams Islamabad at UN

India on Thursday slammed Pakistan, strongly contrasting New Delhi's advancements in security, social, and financial sectors with Pakistan's entrenched fanaticism and terrorism during a recent statement on promoting international peace and security.

India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish emphasized that dispute resolution requires a flexible approach, considering evolving circumstances. He reaffirmed India's commitment as a responsible and founding member of the United Nations, actively engaging with partners to foster a more peaceful, prosperous, and equitable world.

He highlighted India's significant contributions to global peace, from decolonization to fair trade, noting its standing as the largest cumulative contributor to UN Peacekeeping forces and a pioneer in promoting women in peacekeeping. Harish underscored India's valuation of multilateral cooperation to tackle global challenges like sustainable development, climate action, disaster resilience, and global health, citing its unique development cooperation initiatives with the UN and its role as a first responder in regional humanitarian crises.

Permanent Representative of India to the UN in New York, Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish, says "I am also constrained to respond to the remarks made by the representative of Pakistan. The Indian Sub Continent offers a stark contrast in terms of progress, prosperity and development models. On the one hand, there is India which is a mature democracy, a surging economy and a pluralistic and inclusive society. At the other extreme is Pakistan, steeped in fanaticism and terrorism, and a serial borrower from the IMF. As we debate promoting international peace and security, it is essential to recognise that there are some fundamental principles which need to be universally respected. One of them is zero tolerance for terrorism. It ill behoves a member of the Council to offer homilies while indulging in practices that are unacceptable to the international community."

He urged that there should also be a serious cost to states who violate the spirit of good neighbourliness and international relations by fomenting cross-border terrorism. Recently, consequent to the gruesome terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir on 22 April 2025 that led to the killing of 26 innocent tourists, and based on the Council Statement of 25 April where "members of the Security Council underlined the need to hold perpetrators, organizers, financiers and sponsors of this reprehensible act of terrorism accountable and bring them to justice.

Harish added, "The future trajectory of UN peacekeeping operations is under serious debate. At the same time, Peacebuilding has also acquired greater salience in discussions. Regional organisations, for instance, the African Union, have also engaged appropriately, while dealing with disputes among their member states. On the question of Peaceful settlement of disputes, Chapter VI of the UN Charter begins by a recognition that it is the 'parties to a dispute' who must first of all seek a solution by peaceful means of their own choice. National ownership and consent of parties are central to any efforts to achieve peaceful resolution of conflicts..."

The statement of the Permanent Representative of India to the UN in New York, Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish, on promoting International Peace and Security through Multilateralism and Peaceful Settlement of Disputes.

The the Permanent Representative of India to the UN further claimed that it is a useful moment to reflect on how far the spirit of multilateralism and peaceful settlement of disputes as enshrined in the UN Charter has been realized United Nations completes 80 years. "The first four decades after the creation of the United Nations witnessed decolonisation and a period of Cold War. Conflicts were largely contained and managed. UN had a significant role in these efforts. In fact in 1988 UN Peacekeeping forces were awarded the Nobel Prize. The end of Cold War was followed by outbreak of a number of conflicts across continents," he added.

He concluded, "The nature of UN Peacekeeping operations also started to change. In the recent decades, the nature of conflicts has transformed, with a proliferation of non-state actors, often propped up as proxies by state actors; and cross-border funding, arms trafficking, training of terrorists, and spread of radical ideologies, facilitated by modern digital and communication technologies."

India on May 7 launched Operation Sindoor and hit nine terror infrastructure in Pakistan and the Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir.