Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: Rebuking recent statements made by the Indian Minister of External Affairs targeting Pakistan, the Foreign Office has said that its neighbor’s “latest tirade shows growing frustration over India’s failure to isolate and malign Pakistan.”
“For several years, India has engaged in a malicious campaign against Pakistan to mislead the global community through vile anti-Pakistan propaganda and fictitious narrative of victimhood. This practice must stop,” the Foreign Office (FO) said in a statement issued on Wednesday.
The statement comes after Indian Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar, speaking during a two-nation visit to Austria and Cyprus, said that since the epicenter of terrorism is located very close to India, “naturally, our insights and experiences are useful to others.”
India’s continues tirade against Pakistan
Meanwhile, the FO said that India’s continued anti-Pakistan tirade could not hide its brazen involvement in fomenting terrorism, nor could it conceal the reality of state-sponsored terrorism in IIOJK.
“Instead of pointing fingers at others, New Delhi should end its involvement in terrorism, espionage, and subversion against Pakistan,” FO stated.
The foreign ministry noted that a dossier was released only a few weeks ago containing irrefutable evidence that substantiated the involvement of India in the terrorist attack in 2021 in a peaceful area of Lahore.
Last year, Jaishankar said no other country “practices terrorism” the way Pakistan does.
“We have a neighbour. Like we are IT (information technology) experts, they are experts in ‘international terrorists.’ It has been continuing for years, but we could explain to the international community that terrorism is terrorism, today is India is victim, tomorrow it will be against you,” India Today quoted Jaishankar as saying.
Following these remarks, the FO said the statements “are yet another manifestation of the Indian leaders’ obsession to concoct facts concerning terrorism for misleading the international community.”
The FO said the statements are “a bid to mask India’s well-known credentials as a state-sponsor of terrorism and a serial violator of human rights.”
