New York/IBNS, Oct. 23 -- India has slammed Pakistan at the United Nations after Islamabad tried to show "cross border terrorism" as a "freedom struggle", media reports said.

During a recent interaction, Muhammad Jawad Ajmal, a Counsellor at Pakistan's UN Mission, said that nations should draw a distinction between terrorism and people's legitimate right to resist foreign occupation.

"should distinguish between terrorism and the exercise of the legitimate right of people to resist foreign occupation".

In a sharp counter, Raghoo Puri, First Secretary at India's Permanent Mission to the UN slammed Ajmal's remark as "doublespeak and hypocrisy" by Pakistan, which he called the "epicenter" of global terrorism, NDTV reported.

Puri said this...