'In La-La Land': India Slams Pakistan At UN; says 'J&K Development Budget Exceeds Islamabad's IMF Bailout

New Delhi: India on Thursday has slammed Pakistan at the UN Human Rights Council for spreading misinformation about the development of Jammu and Kashmir and stated that Islamabad must be "hallucinating" or living in "La-La-land". 

Where did India say this?

While speaking at the 61st Session of the UNHRC, India's representative Anupama Singh said Pakistan must be "hallucinating" or living in "La-La land" if the nation finds it hard to believe that Jammu and Kashmir's development budget is more than twice the recent bailout package Islamabad sought from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

She said that the developmental budget of Jammu and Kashmir was “more than double the recent bailout package” Pakistan sought from the IMF.

India also rejected allegations made by Pakistan and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), stating that the group had itself allowed to be used as an "echo chamber".

“We categorically reject these allegations. By parroting Pakistan’s propaganda, the OIC reveals how deeply it has allowed itself to be co-opted by one member, reducing itself to an echo chamber for that country’s political compulsions," she said.

Why is Pakistan hallucinating?

Anupama Singh, while replying during the high-level segment, said that "If the Chenab Rail Bridge, the world's highest bridge, inaugurated in Jammu and Kashmir last year, is fake, then Pakistan must be hallucinating or living in the 'La-la-land'." 

"Or perhaps it finds it unbelievable that the developmental budget of Jammu and Kashmir is more than double the recent bailout package it sought from the IMF," she added.

"We categorically reject these allegations," she said, adding that Pakistan's "incessant propaganda now reeks of envy."

Anupama Singh, while exercising India's Right to Reply during the High-Level Segment of the 55th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, said that "India is compelled to exercise its right of reply in response to the references made during the high-level segment by Pakistan and the OIC. We categorically reject these allegations."

"We have no desire to dignify it, but we will make a few points to dismantle it with facts," she added.

What did Singh say about J&K?

Reiterating New Delhi’s long-standing position, Singh asserted that "Jammu and Kashmir was, is, and will always remain an integral and inalienable part of India."

"No amount of wishful rhetoric or audacious propaganda by Pakistan can alter the immutable fact that the accession of Jammu and Kashmir to India was completely legal and irrevocable, in accordance with the Indian Independence Act of 1947 and international law," Singh said.