India has delivered a strong statement at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), asserting that Pakistan must prioritize building its economy and enhancing its human rights record. This comes amidst accusations of Pakistan harboring terrorists and carrying out internal strikes against its own population, with an implicit reference to a recent explosion in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that resulted in 24 casualties.
Kshitij Tyagi, Counsellor at India’s Permanent Mission in Geneva, firmly rebuked the Pakistani delegation for using the international forum to make “baseless and provocative statements” against India.
Speaking at the 60th regular session of the UNHRC in Geneva on Tuesday, September 23, 2025, Mr. Tyagi stated, “A delegation that epitomises the antithesis of this approach continues to abuse this forum with baseless and provocative statements against India.”
He further pressed Pakistan to withdraw from Indian territory under its illegal occupation, specifically referencing Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. “Instead of coveting our territory, they would do well to vacate the Indian territory under their illegal occupation,” Tyagi added.
Without explicitly detailing the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa incident, Mr. Tyagi underscored that Pakistan should focus on salvaging its struggling economy and rectifying its problematic human rights record. He suggested these efforts should take precedence over what he described as Pakistan’s activities in “exporting terrorism, harbouring UN-proscribed terrorists, and bombing their own people.”
The incident referenced involved the deaths of ten civilians and 14 militants on Monday in Tirah Valley’s Matur Dara area, Khyber district, near the Afghan border. Authorities indicated that the blast occurred when bomb-making materials belonging to the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militant group exploded within their compound. However, the provincial branch of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, along with local residents, claimed the explosion was a result of a “jet bombing” in the Tirah Valley, a claim that the local administration has since refuted.