Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri said, "The struggle against India's occupation is a just, legitimate and noble struggle."

He said the international community cannot "ignore the phenomenon of state terrorism as a tool of foreign occupation and defiance of UN resolutions."

He said equating "freedom struggle" with terrorism is "unjust and unacceptable".

"The Kashmir dispute can and should be resolved through dialogue between Pakistan and India in accordance with UN resolutions and the wishes of the people of Kashmir," Kasuri said.

Kasuri said terrorism perpetuated by individuals and groups result in killing or maiming of innocents and must be "equally and identically condemned".

India, reacting to Pakistan's cry, asserted that Islamabad was seeking to sidetrack the problem of terrorism.

"The problem in the state [J&K] is cross-border terrorism encouraged and incited by Pakistan despite repeated statements by the Council that terrorism is unjustified for whatever purpose -- political, economic and social," India's Ambassador to the United Nations Vijay K Nambiar said.

He said that to equate with terrorism the action by the police to establish law and order in the face to violence by terrorists is a "travesty" of truth and "perversion" of values.

Kashmir, Nambiar said, is an integral part of India and the people of the state have repeatedly expressed their determination to this effect. In the assembly election held last year, the turnout was much more than the sham general  election in Pakistan, he added.

The people of Jammu and Kashmir, he said, went to the polling booths in large numbers despite intimidation by terrorist groups sponsored and supported by Pakistan.