Pakistan - a DNA of terrorism: India's reply over false propaganda on Kashmir at UNESCO India on Thursday gave a befitting reply to Pakistan over its false claims and propaganda on Jammu and Kashmir, saying the cash-strapped nation itself is "a DNA of terrorism".

"Pakistan`s neurotic behaviour has resulted in itsdecline to a nearly failed state with its weak economy, radicalised society anddeep-rooted DNA of terrorism," Ananya Agarwal, who led the Indiandelegation to the UNESCO General Conference being held in Paris.

"We condemn Pakistan`s disappointing misuse of UNESCOto spew venom against India and politicise it," she added.

Agarwal noted that Pakistan, in 2018, ranked 14th on thefragile state index. Pakistan is home to all shades of darkness; from extremistideologies and darker powers of radicalisation to the darkest manifestations ofterrorism, she told the panel.

Exposing Pakistan further on the grounds of spreading andbreeding terrorism, Agarwal said that Pakistan is a country, whose leader usesthe UN platform to openly preach nuclear war and issue a call to use armsagainst other nations, referring to Prime Minister Imran Khan`s remarks at theUN General Assembly session in September whereby the leader had warned Indiathat if it if there`s face-off between two nuclear-armed neighbours, theconsequences would be far beyond their borders.

"Would this gathering believe if I told them that oneof Pakistan`s former president`s Gen Pervez Musharraf recently calledterrorists such as Osama Bin laden and Haqqani network as Pakistan`s heroes,"she questioned the panel.

Agarwal stated that Pakistan has been engaging into suchdiabolic rhetoric to malign India in front of the international communityirrespective of the deplorable conditions of human rights suffered by the minoritycommunity on its own soil.

"From 1947, when the minorities formed 23 per cent ofPakistan`s population they have now dwindled to make nearly 3 per cent. It hassubjected Christians, Sikhs, Ahmadiyya, Hindus, Shias, Pashtuns, Sindhis andBalochis to draconian blasphemy laws, blatant abuse and forced conversions. Thegender-based crimes against women include including honour killings, acidattacks forced conversions, forced marriages and child marriages remain asevere problem in Pakistan today," she said.

Agarwal said that India strongly rejects the fabricatedfalsehoods peddled by Pakistan in its statement overflowing with hypocrisy tohide its own pathetic and pitiable records as a nation including its owntreatment of minorities, the spread of hate speech and glorification ofterrorism.

In her concluding remarks, the panellist hoped that the UNESCOmembership would come together to reject such a gross misuse of the platform byany member nation.