New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar Saturday took aim at Pakistan’s history of support for terrorism, while highlighting India’s right to self-defence and calling out “better-off” countries for their double standards over access to resources at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

“Countering terrorism is a particular priority because it synthesises bigotry, violence, intolerance and fear. India has confronted this challenge since independence, having a neighbour that is an epicentre of global terrorism. For decades now, major international terrorist attacks are traced back to that one country,” Jaishankar said, without naming Pakistan directly through the course of his speech.

“UN’s designated lists of terrorists are replete with its nationals. The most recent exa

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