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Sat Sep 29, 2018, 08:12 PM Sep 2018

India, at UN: Pakistan is harboring terrorists

India's foreign minister accused neighboring Pakistan of harboring terrorists in an angry speech Saturday before the U.N. General Assembly and rejected the notion that India is sabotaging peace talks with Pakistan, calling it "a complete lie." Hours later, Pakistan shot back in its own speech, declaring that India "preferred politics over peace."

India's Sushma Swaraj pointed to the fact that Osama bin Laden had been living quietly in Pakistan before he was found and killed by a team of U.S. Navy SEALs, and said the mastermind of the 2008 attack in Mumbai in which 168 people died "still roams the streets of Pakistan with impunity." Pakistan has said there is not enough evidence to arrest him.

"In our case, terrorism is bred not in some faraway land, but across our border to the west," Swaraj said.

Since independence from Britain in 1947, Pakistan and India have fought two of their three wars over Kashmir, divided between the two countries but sought by each in its entirety.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/world/article/India-at-UN-Pakistan-is-harboring-terrorists-13268537.php

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