United Nations: Pakistan has made a renewed attempt to legitimise its terrorism by defending its terrorist brigades sent across to attack India by making the outlandish claim that they are freedom fighters.

India denounced it as “doublespeak and hypocrisy” by the “epicentre” of global terrorism.

Nations should “distinguish between terrorism and the exercise of the legitimate right of people to resist foreign occupation”, Muhammad Jawad Ajmal, a Counsellor at Pakistan’s UN Mission, said on Wednesday.

He falsely claimed that the “distinction is duly observed in International Law, International Humanitarian Law, and General Assembly resolution 46/51 which also endorses this position”.

However, a 1994 General Assembly declaration expressly states, “Criminal acts intended or calculated to

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