Pakistan may have arrived at the UN General Assembly with a familiar victimhood script , but it was India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar who stole the show. Without naming Pakistan, he coolly labelled it “the epicentre of terrorism” and reminded the world that “major international terror attacks trace back to that one country.”

Speaking at the 80th UN General Assembly session, Jaishankar used the phrase “that country” and focused on concrete examples, turning a routine statement into a pointed rebuke.

Jaishankar cited the April Pahalgam massacre of 26 tourists as “cross-border barbarism” and linked it to Operation Sindoor, India’s retaliatory action against terror infrastructure in Pakistan. He stressed that India “brought organisers and perpetrators to justice” and warned

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