United Nations: In a sharp rebuke to Pakistan for raising the Kashmir issue at the UN, India has denounced it as a country that uses terrorists and provides them sanctuary and said Islamabad's cynical efforts to internationalise the dispute has fallen flat.

Calling its reference to Kashmir an 'attempt at misuse' of the UN platform, India's Permanent Representative Syed Akbaruddin said on Thursday, "The attempt came from Pakistan, a country that covets the territory of others; a country that uses terrorism as state policy towards that misguided end; a country that extols the virtues of terrorists and that provides sanctuary to UN-designated terrorists; and a country that masquerades its efforts as support for human rights and self-determination."