‘Architects of 9/11 Were Not Hiding in Caves,’ India Tells UNSC in Scathing Attack at Pakistan
India said the 9/11 plotters were found in Pakistani cities and warned that the same environment still shields Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed.
- On Wednesday, Permanent Representative Harish Parvathaneni addressed the UNSC, asserting that the same "permissive environment" that sheltered 9/11 architects continues to protect terror groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed.
- Parvathaneni argued that 9/11 leaders, including Osama and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, were captured in settled Pakistani communities rather than "caves or badlands," contradicting narratives of remote hideouts.
- Laden was killed in Abbottabad in 2011, while Mohammed was captured in Rawalpindi in 2003; operatives Ramzi Binalshibh and Walid and Attash were apprehended in Karachi, proving they long evaded detection in urban centers.
- On the Twenty-five year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the Security Council adopted a Presidential Statement reaffirming its "unequivocal condemnation" of the terror attacks, marking the Council's first counter-terrorism statement in five years.
- Separately, Parvathaneni criticized the involuntary return of over three million Afghans, calling the lack of international outcry a "sad reflection on the times" and condemning "trade and transit terror" inflicted on Afghanistan.
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'Architects of 9/11 were not hiding in caves': India tells UNSC in scathing attack at Pakistan
‘The same permissive environment that sheltered the architects of 9/11 has, in the years since, continued to provide space, support, and impunity to affiliates of al-Qaeda such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed’
‘Architects of 9/11 were not hiding in caves,’ India tells UNSC in scathing attack at Pakistan
India’s Permanent Representative Harish Parvathaneni listed the names of al-Qaeda leaders who had planned and perpetrated the September 11, 2001, attacks and who were captured in Pakistani cities
At the UN Security Council, India stated that the 9/11 perpetrators hid in Pakistani populated areas, and that this environment also supported Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed. India also raised the issue of forced repatriation of Afghan returnees, disruption of trade and transit, and the need for humanitarian assistance.
India at UN says Pakistan sheltered 9/11 plotters, warns on LeT and JeM
At the UN Security Council, India said Pakistan's permissive environment had sheltered 9/11 plotters and still aids terror groups. It also urged urgent attention to Afghan returnees, saying forced returns must be safe, voluntary and dignified.
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