In a strong retort against Pakistan in the UN Security Council, India on Monday described its neighbour as a country that "bombs its own people" and conducts "systematic genocide".

During his remarks to the UNSC open debate on "Women, Peace and Security", India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish said Pakistan conducted Operation Searchlight in 1971 and sanctioned a systematic campaign of genocidal mass rape of 400,000 women citizens by its own army.