Pakistan, Feb. 19 -- Pakistan Tuesday hit back at India for claiming Kashmir to be its 'integral part", saying fabrication and obfuscation cannot change the legal, political and historical reality.

"Jammu and Kashmir never was, nor is, a so-called 'integral part' of India," Pakistani delegate Asif Khan told the UN Security Council as its day-long discussion on multilateralism and global governance came to a end.

Khan, who is minister at the Pakistan Mission to the UN, was reacting to Indian Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish's claim that Kashmir "has been, is, and will always be an integral and inalienable part of India."

The Indian ambassador made that claim in response to Pakistan's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Senator Moh...