New Delhi, Feb. 27 -- India on Thursday exulted that the UN Human Rights Council's "continues to be wasted by a failed state", in a jibe at neighbour Pakistan. Delivering a rather compelling statement at high-level segment of the 58th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, on Wednesday, India's Counsellor at India's Permanent Mission to the UN in Geneva Kshitij Tyagi stated Pakistan "thrives on instability and survives on international handouts. Its rhetoric reeks of hypocrisy; its actions, of inhumanity; and its governance, of incompetence."

Kshitij Tyagi drew attention at the seventh meeting of the 58th Session of the UN Human Rights Council after he blasted Pakistan saying, "India is exercising its Right of Reply in...