Pakistan said the sudden Indian focus on Balochistan was consistent with their "playbook of seeking to distract attention from the repression unleashed in Kashmir".
Pakistan's delegation to the UN Human Rights Council strongly rebutted India's "untenable stance" on Jammu and Kashmir and slammed its "persistent interference" in Balochistan.
"In strongly-worded right of replies, the Pakistan delegate termed India's attempts to deny its illegal occupation of Jammu and Kashmir a 'travesty of history'," Pakistan Foreign Office (FO) said.
"The increasing international attention being given to the plight of the Kashmiri people is being desperately countered by New Delhi by attempting to shift attention elsewhere," it said.
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Given the "persistent, irresponsible flouting of international norms governing inter-state behaviour by India, we are constrained to point out the abysmal human rights record of the Indian government", FO said.
The delegate referred to a bill in Indian parliament seeking to penalise those who depict Jammu and Kashmir as disputed territory and said "this was yet another pathetic effort to alter facts to conform to their own deluded sense of reality".
Stepping up its offensive against Pakistan on the Balochistan issue at the UN Human Rights Council, India yesterday said Pakistan is a nation that practices terrorism on its own people and the sufferings of the people of Balochistan are a telling testimony in this regard.
Exercising its right of reply and raising the Balochistan issue second time in three days at the UNHRC, India said the irony of a nation that has established a well-earned reputation of being the global epicentre of terrorism holding forth on human rights.