New York, Dec. 16 -- India on Monday (local time) sharply criticised Pakistan's domestic political situation at the United Nations Security Council, flagging Islamabad for jailing former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and allowing its armed forces to engineer a "constitutional coup" through the new 27th amendment, which granted lifetime immunity to its Chief of Defence Forces, Asim Munir.

Referring to Pakistan's democratic crisis during the UNSC open debate on "Leadership for Peace", India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni, said that Islamabad has a "unique way of respecting the will of its people," pointing to the imprisonment of Khan along with the banning of the ruling political party and granti...