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India will not forgive or forget what Hafiz Saaed did: Akbaruddin

Kashmir Times. Dated: 12/19/2018 12:38:10 AM

NEW DELHI, Dec 18 (Agencies): India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Syed Akbaruddin said justice will be done in the case of Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed and the country will not forget or forgive what he did.
Speaking on the sidelines of a conference on soft power, he said, "Justice will be done in the case of Hafiz Saaed and the country will not forget or forgive what he did."
Syed Akbaruddin, India's permanent representative at UN: Hafiz Saeed is somebody India will never forgive or forget, justice awaits him. You can be certain, sometime or the other, justice will be met. We'll never forget his role as the evil mastermind of what happened in Mumbai. pic.twitter.com/Xgrt7VAcyy
— ANI (@ANI) December 18, 2018
Addressing the conference, he said India's major needs as a developing country will always be internal.
"India's major needs as a developing country will always be internal. Given that we are a country of a billion plus, every aspect of our public diplomacy would be towards improving our internal conditions," he said.
He also listed some of the biggest challenges facing the country.
"The big challenges facing India are climate (change) and sanitation and there is no shame in acknowledging that we need to improve. I have not seen any diplomat before 2014 stood up to acknowledge our shortcomings," he said.
He said but today efforts are being put in to "improve ourselves that is the face of changing Indian diplomacy".
Noting that everyone uses soft power, Akbaruddin listed out India's efforts in using soft diplomacy as a tool.