India strongly retaliated back to the baseless allegations by Pakistan put on India at the UN saying that terrorists behind the 2014 attack on a Peshawar school were ‘supported’ by India, saying the ‘despicable insinuation’ dishonours the memory of the children killed in the assault.
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To these allegations, Indian diplomat from the country’s Permanent Mission to the UN, Eenam Gambhir, lashed out at them and said that there was an outpouring of sorrow and pain in India following the massacre of children in 2014.
“Among the most outrageous was the preposterous allegation relating to the horrific terror attack on a Peshawar school four years ago,” Gambhir said.
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“Schools all over India had observed two minutes of silence in their memory. The despicable insinuation made by the foreign minister of Pakistan dishonours the memory of the innocent lives lost to terrorists that day,” Gambhir said.
She said the allegation was a ‘desperate attempt’ to look away from the monster of terror Pakistan has created in its quest to destabilise its neighbours and covet their territory.
The Peshawar attack was carried out by heavily-armed 8-10 Taliban suicide bombers who stormed the army-run school and took several hostages. The attackers wearing paramilitary Frontier Corps uniforms entered the school and started indiscriminate firing in which 149 people were killed and 114 people were injured.
India’s ambassador and permanent representative to the UN, Syed Akbaruddin also tweeted about the same:
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— Syed Akbaruddin (@AkbaruddinIndia) September 29, 2018