India wags annual finger at Pakistan over terror

India has warned Pakistan that cross-border terrorism against it will "inevitably invite consequences" and has ruled out any agreements while the military-run government continues its support for terrorism.

Bhavika Mangalanandan, a First Secretary at India's UN mission, delivered this stern message on Friday as she exercised India's right of reply to Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif's attacks on New Delhi during his address at the General Assembly's high-level meeting.

"Pakistan should realise that cross-border terrorism against India will inevitably invite consequences," she asserted. It is a "travesty" for "a country run by the military, with a global reputation for terrorism, narcotics trade, and transnational crime," to have "the audacity to attack the world's largest democracy," she added.

Sharif claimed that India had rejected his offer of a "mutual Strategic Restraint Regime."