India doesn't qualify for UNSC membership.

NEW YORK -- Pakistan has reaffirmed its opposition to adding new permanent members to the UN Security Council (UNSC), adding that India does not qualify for a seat on the 15- member body. India - along with Brazil, Germany and Japan - has been campaigning for a permeant UNSC membership. Speaking to the UN General Assembly (GA) on Monday, Pakistan's Permanent Representative Ambassador Munir Akram, in an apparent reference to India, said one country has waged 20 wars since independence and fomented terrorism and instability across the region, especially in Pakistan. 'We have clear and ample evidence of this state-sponsored terrorism,' the Pakistani envoy told the 193-member

GA, which is debating reforms aimed at making the UN body more representative, responsive, democratic and transparent. 'It stands in violation of UNSC resolutions in occupied Kashmir,' Akram said, adding that it had deployed 900,000 troops to crush the...

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