After Pakistan Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif’s attacks on India in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly, Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar delivered a stern warning a day later to Pakistan that cross-border terrorism will "have consequences" and said that Islamabad was facing “karma” for the terrorist attacks it launched on India. 

“Let me make India's position perfectly clear: Pakistan's cross-border terrorism policy will never succeed, and it can have no expectation of impunity”, he said. “On the contrary, actions will certainly have consequences”, Jaishankar declared at the General Assembly’s high-level session.

This was one of India’s strongest, unabashed warnings to Islamabad from an international forum. He dismissed as “bizarre” Sharif’s attacks on India in his speech on Friday where he compared Jammu and Kashmir to Palestine and accused India of following a "Hindu supremacist agenda" to subjugate Muslims and their culture. 

Of Islamabad’s ideological commitment to terrorism, he said, “When this polity instils such fanaticism among its people, its GDP can only be measured in terms of radicalisation and its exports in the form of terrorism”.

Excoriating Pakistan for the terrorist attacks launched against other countries and its export of terrorism. Jaishankar said, “Today, we see the ills it sought to visit on others consume its own society”. 

“It can’t blame the world; this is only ‘karma’”, he said.

He was alluding to a Pakistan consumed by internal disorder as its fractious politics and religious divisions are roiled by violence and its economy in shambles begs for bailouts. “Many countries get left behind due to circumstances beyond their control. But some make conscious choices with disastrous consequences”, he said. 

“A premier example is our neighbour, Pakistan”, he said of the consequences it faces internally as a result of promoting terrorism. But “unfortunately, their misdeeds affect others as well, especially the neighbourhood”, he said

Jaishankar alluded to China’s role in protecting Pakistan-based terrorists from UN sanctions. Without naming China, he said, “The sanctioning of global terrorists by the United Nations should also not be impeded for political reasons”.

"Terrorism is antithetical of everything that the world stands for. All its forms of and manifestations must be resolutely opposed", he said.