Pakistan says India cannot suppress the legitimate struggle of the Kashmiri people for realization of their right to self-determination.

Addressing a committee of the United Nations General Assembly which deals with legal matters, Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Munir Akram said this right is inherent as it has been promised to the Kashmiri people by the Security Council, and by India and Pakistan.

He said the Kashmiri struggle cannot be suppressed by India's attempt to equate it with terrorism.

The Pakistani envoy said that the global counter-terrorism endeavour has failed to address state terrorism.

Munir Akram said terrorism must be defeated comprehensively everywhere in all its manifestations and it cannot be addressed selectively.

He said the Indian state terrorism has intensified since 5th of August last year, when New Delhi illegally annexed the disputed territory.

The Pakistani Ambassador said Indian government arrested all Kashmiri political leaders and activists, abducted and tortured 13,000 Kashmiri, clamped down on peaceful protests with pellet guns that blind even small children, and hundreds of Kashmiri youth were extra-judicially killed in fake encounters.

He said Pakistan is the victim of attacks by the terrorists groups financed and backed by India from across the border.

Munir Akram demanded that no one Indian soldier was punished for these crimes which are well recorded in UN, civil society and media reports.

The Pakistani envoy demanded that such state terrorism must be punished.