In a strongly worded intervention at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), Indian diplomat Kshitij Tyagi delivered a scathing rebuttal to Pakistan’s continued misuse of international platforms to spread false propaganda against India.

Tyagi asserted that India required no lessons from a country that shelters terrorists, persecutes minorities, and has undermined its own global credibility. He emphasized India’s commitment to defending its sovereignty and citizens with “unwavering resolve” and pledged to keep exposing what he termed as “the elaborate deception of a failed state whose survival depends upon trafficking in terror and tragedy.”

Responding sharply to Pakistan’s repeated provocations, Tyagi reminded the council of India’s measured and proportionate response to the Pahalgam attack and condemned Islamabad’s obsession with India, noting that Pakistan’s own leadership had recently likened their country to a “dump truck” — an apt metaphor, he said, for a state that continues to recycle “falsehoods and stale propaganda” before global forums. He accused Pakistan of routinely abusing multilateral platforms, including its manipulation of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), to amplify its anti-India narrative and termed this behavior a sign of its “pathological fixation” on India.

Tyagi also reiterated India’s firm stand that Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh are integral parts of the country and highlighted the region’s political, social, and economic progress as evidence of India’s commitment to restoring normalcy after decades of Pakistan-sponsored terrorism. In addition to taking on Pakistan, Tyagi criticized Switzerland’s remarks urging India to protect minorities and uphold media freedoms, calling them “shallow, surprising, and ill-informed.”

He urged Switzerland, as the current UNHRC president, to refrain from wasting the council’s time with false narratives and instead focus on addressing its own domestic challenges, such as racism, discrimination, and xenophobia.

Tyagi added that India, as the world’s largest and most diverse democracy, remains ready to assist Switzerland in tackling these issues.