UNITED NATIONS:

Pakistan took strong exception when India called it "Terroristan" at the United Nations on Saturday, saying the attempt to distort the country's name was "utterly shameful" and petty.

"It is utterly shameful that India stoops so low as to distort the very name of a country, a member of the United Nations," Pakistani diplomat Muhammad Rashid told the UN General Assembly, which saw a fiery clash between the two South Asian neighbours — the second in the current session.

Rashid, a second secretary at the Pakistani Mission to the UN, was exercising his right of reply to his Indian counterpart, Rentala Srinivas, who accused Pakistan of promoting terrorism, saying, "No arguments or untruths can ever whitewash the crimes of Terroristan."

Hitting back, the Pakistani diplomat sa

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