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India's scathing attack on Pak at UNSC: ‘9/11 architects didn’t hide in caves'
Harish Parvathaneni named several al-Qaeda leaders involved in September 11, 2001 attacks, noting that they were subsequently captured in Pakistani cities.
The “architects” behind the 9/11 attacks were not hiding in “caves or badlands,” India said in a scathing attack at Pakistan at the UNSC on Thursday. India accused its neighbour of providing a “permissive environment” that allowed those 9/11 attack to evade detection.
India argued that the same environment continues to support terror groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed.
Addressing a UN Security Council meeting on the situation in Afghanistan, India’s Permanent Representative Harish Parvathaneni pointed to the history of the September 11, 2001 attacks, noting that al-Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed were ultimately located in populated areas rather than remote hideouts, news agency PTI reported.
"The international community supported the global campaign to counter terrorism in the wake of 9/11. Let us not forget, however, that al-Qaeda's terror ecosystem established its strategic depth beyond Afghanistan through its affiliates," Parvathaneni said on Wednesday.
Parvathaneni named several al-Qaeda leaders involved in planning and carrying out the September 11, 2001 attacks, noting that they were subsequently captured in Pakistani cities.
