'Army is the rule, Army is the law': India slams Pak at UN over rule of law

India has hit out at Pakistan at the United Nations over its remarks on the rule of law, saying Islamabad cannot deliver "lectures" when "Army is the rule, and Army is the law" in the country.

India exercised its Right of Reply on Friday after Pakistan made remarks during a discussion in the Sixth Committee of the UN General Assembly on 'Rule of Law at National and International Levels'.

"It is ironic to hear lectures on rule of law from a nation whose own record makes a mockery of it," Counsellor in the Permanent Mission of India to the UN R.

Mythili said, adding that Pakistan claims at the UN to defend the rule of law while its Army effectively determines it at home.

"A state that places its military rulers beyond the reach of its own courts is in no position to lecture on the rule of law in this committee," she said, describing Pakistan's 26th Constitutional Amendment as a "real blow" to judicial independence.

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