India has strongly rebutted Pakistan’s claims on last year’s Operation Sindoor, telling the UN Security Council that it was the Pakistani military that “pleaded for a cessation of fighting” after suffering significant damage to its airbases following India’s counter-terror operations.Responding to remarks by Pakistan during an open debate of the UN Security Council, India’s Permanent Representative Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni said Islamabad had presented a “false and self-serving account” of the events surrounding Operation Sindoor, launched by India in May 2025.“The facts are clear,” Parvathaneni said, recalling that Pakistan-sponsored terrorists killed 26 innocent civilians in a brutal attack in Pahalgam in April 2025. He noted that the security council itself had called for the perpetrators, organisers, financiers and sponsors of the attack to be held accountable. “That is exactly what we did,” he said.The Indian envoy emphasised that India’s response was measured, responsible and non-escalatory, and was aimed solely at dismantling terrorist infrastructure and neutralising terrorists. He added that until May 9, Pakistan continued to threaten further attacks on India.“On May 10, the Pakistani military called our military directly and pleaded for a cessation to the fighting,” Parvathaneni told the council. He said the extent of damage inflicted by Indian operations was evident from publicly available images showing destroyed runways and burnt-out hangars at multiple Pakistani airbases.Rejecting Pakistan’s attempt to describe the situation as a “new normal”, the Indian envoy said terrorism could never be normalised. “It is not normal to tolerate Pakistan’s continued use of terrorism as an instrument of state policy,” he said, cautioning that the UN should not become a platform for legitimising terrorism.Parvathaneni underlined that India would take all necessary steps to ensure the safety and security of its citizens, and warned against any justification of cross-border terror activities.He also asserted that Pakistan has no locus standi to comment on India’s internal matters, reiterating that Jammu and Kashmir “has been, is and will always remain an integral and inalienable part of India”.On the Indus Waters Treaty, the Indian envoy said India had entered the agreement over six decades ago in good faith, but Pakistan had repeatedly violated its spirit through wars and sustained terror attacks. He said India was compelled to place the treaty in abeyance until Pakistan “credibly and irrevocably ends its support for cross-border and all other forms of terrorism”.India further advised Pakistan to introspect on the rule of law, pointing to what it described as the erosion of constitutional norms and the growing role of its military establishment.