After the U.N. Security Council adopted a press release Thursday warning of accelerating risks of terrorism, envoys from India and Pakistan heatedly traded accusations blaming one another for terror assaults.

India’s exterior affairs minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, by no means named Pakistan in his speech to the Security Council.

But answering questions afterward from reporters he recalled former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton saying throughout a go to to Pakistan a decade in the past “that if you keep snakes in your backyard, you can’t expect them to bite only your neighbors, eventually they will bite the people who keep them in the backyard.”

“Pakistan is not good at taking good advice,” Jaishankar mentioned. “The world today sees them as the epicenter of terrorism.”

Earlier, he informed the council that “India faced the horrors of cross-border terrorism long before the world took serious note of it” and has “fought terrorism resolutely, bravely and with a zero-tolerance approach.”

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He mentioned that the September 11, 2001, terrorist assault on the United States that killed practically 3,000 individuals and the November 26, 2008, terror assault that killed 166 individuals in Mumbai, India, must not ever occur once more.

The 10 Mumbai attackers have been members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based militant group, and Indian investigators later mentioned their actions have been directed by cellphone by handlers in Pakistan.

Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was requested to answer Jaishankar’s declare that the world sees Pakistan as “the epicenter of terrorism” at a information convention quickly after.

He mentioned that Pakistan as a nation has been the sufferer of terrorism, and that he as a person is a sufferer of terrorism — his mom, Benazir Bhutto, the primary girl elected to guide a Muslim majority nation in 1988, was assassinated by a suicide bomber who rushed her motorcade as she campaigned for president in 2007.

Bhutto Zardari mentioned preventing towards terrorism has been a trigger “that is incredibly personal to me.”

“As a Muslim, as a Pakistani, as a victim of terrorism, I believe it is time that we move away from some of the Islamophobic narrative framing of this issue that took place after the awful attacks of September 11, 2001, because what we witnessed from that date up until now is that terrorism, of course, knows no religion, knows no boundaries,” he mentioned.

He mentioned that Pakistan has misplaced way more lives to terrorism than India, however that the Indians proceed to say “Muslim and terrorist together,” whether or not in Pakistan or in India.

Bhutto Zardari mentioned Jaishankar ought to keep in mind “that Osama bin Laden is dead, but the butcher of Gujarat lives and he is the prime minister of India.”

He was referring to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a Hindu nationalist who was accused of not doing sufficient to stop the killings of practically 1,000 Muslims throughout riots in 2002 in India’s western state of Gujarat, the place he was the highest elected official.

Before being requested about Jaishankar’s “epidemic” declare, Bhutto Zardari informed reporters that “it is about time that India and Pakistan and the international community work together … to ensure that the financing, support and facilitation of these (terrorist) groups come to an end.”