Pakistan refused to accept bodies of its own soldiers killed in Kargil war: India at UN

Pakistan refused to accept bodies of its own soldiers killed in Kargil war: India at UN left Indian diplomat Bhavika Mangalanandan. ANI ANI https://th-i.thgim.com/public/incoming/mydttd/article71614843.ece/alternates/FREE_1200/IMG_Indian_diplomat_Bhav_2_1_28DD2VAS.jpg ANI New York, Sept 28 (ANI): Indian diplomat Bhavika Mangalanandan speaks at the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), in New York on Friday. (ANI Photo)

Ms. Mangalanandan added that burial rights for terrorists are being justified by indicating that States may restrict funeral rights of terrorists, but only within legal limits

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India slammed Pakistan at the UN, reminding the country that it did not even accept the bodies of its own soldiers killed in combat in the 1999 Kargil war but speaks about faith, religious freedom and burials.

The interim report of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion and belief, Nazila Ghanea, said that "Reports of systemic denial of funeral rights in the context of individuals killed in security operations in Jammu and Kashmir, India, including denial of return of bodies to families and remote and secret burials, disproportionately affecting Muslims and notably inconsistent with their practices, raise serious concerns."

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"It is deeply ironic that a State that did not even accept the bodies of its own soldiers who were killed in combat in 1999 in Kargil unabashedly speaks with fervour on faith, religious freedom, and burials," First Secretary at the Permanent Mission of India to the UN Bhavika Mangalanandan said at the United Nations on Thursday (October 22, 2026), a strong reference to Pakistan.

Indian Army recovered bodies of Pakistani soldiers who died in the Kargil War and provided them with burials after Pakistan refused to acknowledge the involvement of Pakistan Army personnel in the war.

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"Pakistan's deep obsession with what is happening in the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir should be actually directed at the developments that are underway in the parts of Jammu and Kashmir under its illegal occupation, such as Rawalakot," she said, adding that in Pakistan, a number of minorities are shrinking; their rights regularly abused.

"A State that cannot ensure the safety of its own minorities has no standing to lecture India," she said.

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Ms. Mangalanandan added that burial rights for terrorists are being justified by indicating that States may restrict funeral rights of terrorists, but only within legal limits.

"Legal limits should be determined in accordance with the principles of sovereign rights. A terrorist not only kills innocent people but damages the psyche of a nation," she said, adding that the report's fervent advocacy for the rights of terrorists, who violate the most sacred right of humans -- the right to life -- does not similarly extend to the victims of terrorism.

"The report goes back half a decade to find references to my country. It fails when it comes to grave violations committed recently in our region and in the developed world," she said.

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Ms. Mangalanandan said that as per the report, all discrimination and wrong practices during COVID-19 supposedly took place only in the Global South.

"What benefit does the report derive by not mentioning similar tragic situations in the developed world? Deriving political mileage out of people's pain and loss should not be a topic that SRs (Special Rapporteurs) should base their relevance on," she said.