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# Jaishankar Warns Pakistan That Terrorism Will Carry Consequences
- URL: https://www.theglobalvoice.com/jaishankar-warns-pakistan-that-terrorism-will-carry-consequences/
- Published: 2026-09-27T08:12:59.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-27T08:12:59.000Z
- Description: Jaishankar called Pakistan a “serial practitioner of terrorism” at the UNGA and warned that India would exercise its right to self-defence. His remarks answered Shehbaz Sharif’s claims on Kashmir, the Indus Waters Treaty and the 2025 military confrontation.
- Author: TGV Desk
- Tags: India, that is Bharat, Pakistan, Diplomacy, conflict, War, The Day So Far, Top Stories, has-audio

[External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has delivered a sharp warning to Pakistan at the United Nations General Assembly](https://gadebate.un.org/en/81/india?ref=theglobalvoice.com), describing it as a “serial practitioner of terrorism” and asserting that India will continue to exercise its right to defend itself.

Jaishankar did not name Pakistan during his address to the 81st session of the General Assembly on September 26\. However, his remarks directly referred to the speech delivered a day earlier by Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

“Yesterday, a serial practitioner of terrorism misrepresented facts before this Assembly,” Jaishankar said. He accused Pakistan of using the UN platform to normalise terrorism and seek immunity from its consequences, adding that such arguments “will not stand”.

> Governments🇵🇰 indulging in such practices of cross border terror must be held accountable, EAM Jaishankar tells UN [pic.twitter.com/GSdYozqnKE](https://t.co/GSdYozqnKE?ref=theglobalvoice.com)
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> — Sidhant Sibal (@sidhant) [September 26, 2026](https://x.com/sidhant/status/2103916517922631933?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=theglobalvoice.com)

Jaishankar said terrorism remained a persistent threat to international peace and became a direct challenge to the global order when it was sponsored by states and directed across borders. He called for governments supporting terrorism to be held accountable and urged countries to expose and disrupt the financial networks sustaining armed groups.

“Our right to defend ourselves against terrorism will be exercised,” he said. “Friendship and goodwill cannot co-exist with terrorism.”

The remarks followed Sharif’s attempt to present Pakistan’s account of the four-day military confrontation with India in May 2025\. The Pakistani prime minister claimed that India had launched aggression under a “false pretext” and said Pakistan had acted in self-defence under [Article 51 of the UN Charter.](https://legal.un.org/repertory/art51.shtml?ref=theglobalvoice.com)

Sharif also credited US President Donald Trump with intervening at a decisive moment to end the confrontation. India has repeatedly rejected that claim, maintaining that the cessation of military action was arranged directly after Pakistani officials contacts the Indian side and requested a ceasefire.

The confrontation followed the April 2025 terrorist attack in Pahalgam, where 26 Hindu tourists were killed. India blamed Pakistan-based terrorists and launched [Operation Sindoor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025%5FIndia%E2%80%93Pakistan%5Fconflict?ref=theglobalvoice.com) on May 7, striking what it described as terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

Sharif also raised Kashmir and called it Pakistan’s “jugular vein”. He warned that any attempt by India to stop, impede or divert Pakistan’s share of the Indus river system would be treated as an “act of war”.

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India placed the [Indus Waters Treaty](https://www.mea.gov.in/bilateral-documents?dtl/6439/Indus&ref=theglobalvoice.com) in abeyance after the Pahalgam attack, arguing that cooperation under the agreement could not continue while Pakistan supported cross-border terrorism.

India had already exercised its Right of Reply following Sharif’s address. First Secretary Petal Gahlot accused Pakistan of relying on terrorism, deceit and military propaganda while lecturing other countries about democracy. She described its political system as a regime “of the army, by the army and for the army”.

Jaishankar’s subsequent address elevated that rebuttal into India’s formal national statement. His remarks connected the future of bilateral relations directly to Pakistan’s conduct, making clear that dialogue, goodwill and existing understandings could not be insulated from continued terrorism.

[Beyond Pakistan, Jaishankar warned that conflicts were imposing severe costs on countries that had no role in starting them](https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/09/1168460?ref=theglobalvoice.com). He called for restraint and de-escalation in the Gulf, protection for civilians and seafarers, and the uninterrupted movement of energy and commercial shipping.

But the hardest message was reserved for Islamabad. India’s position at the UN was that terrorism would not be treated as an acceptable instrument of state policy and that future attacks would invite consequences rather than diplomatic appeals for restraint.