The young diplomat who countered Pak PM at UNGA

India fielded one in every of its youngest diplomats to counter Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s rant on Kashmir on the United Nations Basic Meeting on Friday, signalling but once more to the neighbouring nation that it doesn’t connect a lot significance to such remarks by a Pakistani chief on the world physique.

IMAGE: First Secretary Sneha Dubey speaks on the United Nations Basic Meeting on Friday. {Photograph}: ANI

First Secretary Sneha Dubey gave a blistering retort to Khan within the UN Basic Meeting as she delivered India’s robust Proper of Reply from the UNGA corridor, carrying on with a practice seen over the previous few years of younger Indian diplomats taking up Pakistani leaders and strongly responding to their rants over Kashmir and different inner issues of India.

‘We train our Proper of Reply to 1 extra try by the chief of Pakistan to tarnish the picture of this august Discussion board by bringing in issues inner to my nation, and going as far as to spew falsehoods on the world stage,’ Dubey mentioned within the UN Basic Meeting.

‘Whereas such statements deserve our collective contempt and sympathy for the mindset of the one that utters falsehood repeatedly, I’m taking the ground to set the document straight,’ the younger Indian diplomat mentioned, slamming the 68-year-old cricketer-turned politician for raking up the Kashmir problem in his video tackle to the 76th session of the UN Basic Meeting.

Dubey, a 2012 batch Indian International Service (IFS) officer, has an MA and MPhil from Jawaharlal Nehru College and was Beneath Secretary (T) Latin America and Caribbean within the Ministry of Exterior Affairs from December 2013 to August 2014.

She was then Third Secretary within the Embassy of India in Madrid, in keeping with her LinkedIn profile.

Dubey’s assured and sharp speech elicited congratulatory responses on social media websites.

‘Glorious rebuttal by this good, younger, energetic diplomat of this nice nation,’ a Twitter consumer mentioned whereas one other commented ‘A courageous diplomat of India.. Nice job.’

One other submit on Twitter mentioned, ‘A befitting reply by @SnehaDube Stuffed with confidence and info. Properly completed. Stick with it’ whereas many others applauded India’s ‘Nari Shakti (girls energy)’.

It was in the course of the tenure of then Indian envoy on the UN Ambassador Syed Akbaruddin that the development started of India fielding younger diplomats to ship the Proper of Reply to Pakistani leaders who persistently rake up the Kashmir problem and different inner issues of India of their addresses to the UN Basic Meeting and different boards of the world organisation.

The message being that India’s younger diplomats are sufficient to tackle Pakistan’s leaders on the world discussion board.

In September 2016, then First Secretary within the Indian Mission to the UN Eenam Gambhir delivered India’s Proper of Reply to Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s UN Basic Meeting tackle.

‘The world has not but forgotten that the path of that dastardly assault led all the way in which to Abbottabad in Pakistan. The land of Taxila, one of many biggest studying centres of historic occasions, is now host to the Ivy League of terrorism. It attracts aspirants and apprentices from everywhere in the world. The impact of its poisonous curriculum are felt throughout the globe.’

A couple of days later, Gambhir had once more delivered the Proper of Reply when Islamabad’s then UN envoy Maleeha Lodhi had responded to late Exterior Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s tackle to the UN Basic Debate.

Then once more in 2017, it was Gambhir who took on then Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, saying in India’s Proper of Reply that ‘In its quick historical past, Pakistan has change into a geography synonymous with terror. The search for a land of pure has truly produced ‘the land of pure terror’. Pakistan is now Terroristan… Its present state could be gauged from the truth that Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, a frontrunner of the United Nations designated terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Tayiba, is now sought to be legitimised as a frontrunner of a political get together’.

In 2019, one other younger Indian feminine diplomat Vidisha Maitra, First Secretary in India’s Everlasting Mission to the UN, delivered the scathing Proper of Reply from the UN Basic Meeting flooring to Prime Minister ‘Imran Khan Niazi’.

‘Phrases matter in diplomacy. Invocation of phrases equivalent to ‘pogrom’, ‘massacre’, ‘racial superiority’, ‘decide up the gun’ and ‘combat to the tip’ replicate a medieval mindset and never a twenty first century imaginative and prescient.’

‘Pogroms, Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi, are usually not a phenomenon of immediately’s vibrant democracies,’ Maitra had mentioned.

‘We might request you to refresh your quite sketchy understanding of historical past. Don’t forget the grotesque genocide perpetrated by Pakistan towards its personal folks in 1971 and the function performed by Lt Gen A A Okay Niazi. A sordid proven fact that the Hon’ble Prime Minister of Bangladesh reminded this Meeting about earlier this afternoon.’

In 2019, Khan had delivered his maiden speech on the UN Basic Debate and in his nearly 50-minute tackle, devoted half of his time to India and Kashmir, drumming up hysteria over nuclear conflict.

‘Even coming from the chief of a rustic that has monopolised all the worth chain of the trade of terrorism, Prime Minister Khan’s justification of terrorism was brazen and incendiary,’ Maitra had mentioned.

‘Residents of India don’t want anybody else to talk on their behalf, least of all those that have constructed an trade of terrorism from the ideology of hate,’ she mentioned.

Final yr, First Secretary within the Everlasting Mission of India to the UN Mijito Vinito, delivering India’s Proper of Reply, had mentioned that the ‘solely crowning glory’ that Pakistan has to point out to the world for the final seven a long time is terrorism, ethnic cleaning, majoritarian fundamentalism and clandestine nuclear commerce.

India’s scathing response slammed Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s ‘incessant rant’ and ‘venom’ within the UN Basic Meeting.

‘This august Discussion board witnessed immediately a brand new low on its seventy fifth Anniversary. The chief of Pakistan immediately referred to as for individuals who incite hate and violence to be outlawed. However, as he went on, we have been left questioning, was he referring to himself?’ Vinito had mentioned.