Pahalgam Terror Attack: Unsc Refuses To Accept 'false Flag' Theory, Questions Pakistan On Let Involvement

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) members were successful nary temper for Pakistan's theories astatine its caller informal closed-door convention connected Monday. The deliberations took spot amid increasing tensions betwixt India and Pakistan pursuing nan panic onslaught successful Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam that claimed nan lives of 26 people, mostly tourists, connected April 22. 

During this closed-door meet, location was wide condemnation of nan onslaught and nickname of nan request for accountability arsenic nan UNSC raised reliable questions for Islamabad.

The UNSC refused to judge nan "false flag" narrative, which is being many times peddled by Pakistani ministers and elites, news agency ANI reported, citing sources. Among those successful Pakistan who labelled nan Pahalgam violent onslaught arsenic a "false flag" cognition were Pakistani Punjab's Information Minister Azma Bokhari.

"They refused to judge nan “false flag” communicative and asked whether LeT was apt to beryllium involved," nan sources said. 

A time aft nan attack, Bokhari said successful a video clip: "Any misadventure by India nether mendacious emblem pretext will person dire consequences." She besides said successful a connection that past time, Pakistan served beverage but this time, nan federation mightiness not beryllium truthful courteous. 

She referred to nan Indian Air Force's cognition targeting a panic campy successful Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, which followed nan 2019 Pulwama panic attack. Further, nan UNSC besides questioned Pakistan connected nan engagement of nan proscribed panic outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) successful nan Pahalgam attack.

Some of nan UNSC members specifically brought up that visitors were targeted based connected their religion. Many of them were concerned that Pakistan's rocket tests and atomic limb rhetoric could escalate nan already worsening tensions betwixt New Delhi and Islamabad. 

On Monday, Pakistan conducted a training motorboat of a Fatah bid surface-to-surface rocket pinch a scope of 120 km arsenic portion of nan ongoing "Exercise Indus". India has held nan Indus Water Treaty (IWT) successful abeyance aft nan Pahalgam attack. 

The members were besides of nan sentiment that Pakistan's efforts to internationalize nan business person besides failed, advising Islamabad to benignant retired nan issues bilaterally pinch New Delhi. 

(With agency inputs)

Published on: May 6, 2025 10:27 AM IST