NEW DELHI: India slammed Pakistan at UN General Assembly for abetment to terrorism, and labelled the country as “Terroristan” that produces terrorists and exports them all over the world.“In its short history, Pakistan has become a geography synonymous with terror,” Eenam Gambhir , the first secretary in India’s Permanent Mission to the UN, said in response to Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Abbasi’s statement accusing India of “brutally” suppressing “the struggle” of the people of Kashmir Gambhir, who stole the show last year as well when she took on the then Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Shari f by saying “the land of Taxila, one of the greatest learning centres of ancient times, is now host to the Ivy League of terrorism,” was at her best against Abbasi this year. Pakistan’s “contribution to the globalisation of terror is unparalleled”, she said, exercising India’s right of reply in the general debate at the UN General Assembly Session in New York. “The quest for land of pure has actually produced a ‘land of pure terror’. Pakistan is now ‘Terroristan’ with a flourishing industry producing and exporting global terrorism,” Gambhir said.In his speech earlier, Abassi had accused New Delhi of frequently violating ceasefire agreement along the Line of Control in Kashmir and said “if India does venture across the LoC, or acts upon its doctrine of ‘limited’ war against Pakistan, it will evoke a strong and matching response. The international community must act decisively to prevent the situation from a dangerous escalation.” Criticising Abbasi’s claim of Pak fighting terrorism, Gambhir said: “This is a country whose counter-terrorism policy is to mainstream and upstream terrorism by either providing safe haven to global terror leaders in its military towns or protecting them with political careers.” It is extraordinary that the state which protected Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and sheltered Mullah Omar have the gumption to play the victim, she said.She said the current state of Pakistan could be gauged from the fact that Hafiz Saeed, leader of the Lashkar-e-Taiba which the UN has designated as a terrorist outfit, was seeking to be legitimised as a leader of a political party. Stating that nothing can justify Pakistan’s avaricious efforts to covet territories of its neighbours, Gambhir said: “Pakistan must understand that the state of J&K is and will always remain an integral part of India. However much it scales up cross-border terrorism, it will never succeed in undermining India’s territorial integrity.” On Pakistan’s complaints about the consequences it faced for its counter-terror efforts, she said: “Having diverted billions of dollars in international development aid towards creating a dangerous infrastructure of terror on its own territory, Pakistan is now speaking of the high cost of its terror industry. The polluter in this case is paying the price.”Sushma Swaraj seeks peace, security in South AsiaNEW DELHI: India on Friday unequivocally pointed out that connectivity, prosperity and cooperation in South Asia can only be achieved in an atmosphere of peace and security as it called for elimination of terror in all its form without any discrimination and an end to ecosystem of support for terror. “The number incidents that endanger South Asia’s peace and stability are on the rise,” foreign minister Sushma Swaraj said at SAARC Foreign Minister’s meet on sidelines of UNGA in New York.