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ISLAMABAD – Pakistan on Monday urged India to shun provocation and stop levelling baseless allegations against Pakistan. Reacting to the remarks made by Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Foreign Office spokesperson Asim Iftikhar Ahmed said Pakistan “strongly condemns the unwarranted, gratuitous and provocative comments made by the Indian Defence Minister at an event in New Delhi on 12 December 2021, questioning established historical facts, levelling unfounded allegations in the context of terrorism, and hurling threats against Pakistan.”
He said it was Bharatiya Janata Party’s special forte to misrepresent history, resort to revisionism and delusional thinking, and indulge in false bravado. “Such discourse is particularly evident whenever elections in key states in India are approaching,” he added.
The spokesperson said, the timing of the “Indian Defence Minister’s provocative rhetoric is, therefore, not surprising, as the BJP-RSS combine is desperate to win elections in Uttar Pradesh and other states, typically inciting hyper nationalism and seeking to advance the extremist Hindutva agenda.”
He said the Indian Defence Minister’s chest-thumping and war-mongering is nothing but further evidence of India’s irresponsible behaviour and its relentless belligerence towards Pakistan.
Rajnath’s ‘chest-thumping and war-mongering’ nothing but evidence of India’s irresponsible behaviour, says FO
Earlier, Rajnath Singh said that the 1971 war was a reminder that India’s partition on religious lines was an “aitihasik galti” (historic mistake), and that Pakistan had ever since continued to engage in a “proxy-war against India.”
Singh claimed, “The 1971 war tells us that the partition of India on the basis of religion was a historic mistake. Pakistan was born in the name of one religion but it could not remain one. After the defeat of 1971, our neighbouring country is constantly waging a proxy war in India.”
FO spokesperson Asim Iftikhar Ahmed said India’s ruling BJP leaders will be well-advised to desist from any ill-conceived misadventure and also stop dragging Pakistan in India’s domestic politics for electoral gains.
As regards the issue of terrorism, he said, the international community is well aware of how the Hindutva-inspired regime in India is carrying out State-terrorism against the Kashmiris in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir. In November last year, Pakistan also presented a comprehensive dossier with irrefutable evidence of the Indian government’s planning, aiding, abetting, financing and executing terrorist activities in Pakistan.
“The world is aware that Pakistan is fully capable of thwarting India’s aggressive designs. We have demonstrated our resolve and capability in this regard, including in the recent past,” Ahmed said.