India on Saturday strongly rebuked Pakistan at the UN, stressing that democracy is an "alien" concept for Islamabad, which continues to subject the people of its "illegally occupied territories" to grave human rights violations.

Responding to references made by Pakistan's envoy at the UN Security Council's open debate on 'The United Nations Organisation: Looking into the Future' on Friday, India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish, said, "The people of Jammu and Kashmir exercise their fundamental rights in accordance with India's time-tested democratic traditions and constitutional framework."

"We, of course, know that these are concepts alien to Pakistan," he said.

Reiterating that Jammu and Kashmir "has been, is, and will always be" an integral part of

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