Praise & Potshots: Sushma Swaraj’s UNGA Address Stirs Up Twitter

Sushma Swaraj drew accolades for her rebuttal to Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif’s UNGA speech but a few are unhappy.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj addressed the 71st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session on Monday and delivered a counter-attack against Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s speech made earlier during the session.

In her address, she said that there are nations “in our midst” where UN-designated terrorists roam freely and deliver “their poisonous sermons of hate with impunity”, an apparent reference to 26/11 Mumbai attack mastermind and Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed.

In a sharp rebuttal to Sharif’s comments on Kashmir, Swaraj tore into Pakistan for the first time at the UNGA for perpetrating the “worst form of state oppression” in Balochistan.