In response to the remarks by India, Tipu Usman, a counsellor in the Pakistan mission to the UN, told the UN General Assembly on Monday that India was sponsoring terrorism.

India is funding and arming terrorist organisations to launch terrorist attacks inside Pakistan in an attempt to become a regional hegemon, he said.

In his remarks, Usman said, "India is churning out operatives of mayhem from its factories of terror".

"Pakistan caught operatives like Indian Commander Kalbushan Yadav red-handed, who were involved in sabotage activities, spreading terror and violence across Pakistan, we will catch others as well and bring them to justice," he added.

On Monday, the Indian delegate, Paulomi Tripathi, glossed over Kashmir, the core dispute between India and Pakistan, and instead spoke of the photo displayed in the Assembly by Ambassador Lodhi.

"The Indian representative has once again chosen to divert the attention of the international community from the real issue ? the real issue of human life, of human eyes, of children and infants blinded forever, of women raped and elderly killed every day by the reign of brutality unleashed by the occupation forces in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The real issue is of Security Council resolutions, which India refuses to implement," said Usman