Monitoring Desk
\nIslamabad
\nIslamabad on Friday rejected the \u201cgratuitous remarks\u201d by the spokesperson for the Indian Ministry of External Affairs regarding the state of minorities in Pakistan and baseless allegations regarding terrorism.
\n\u201cAs a perpetrator of unabated state terrorism in occupied Kashmir and systemic state-sponsored discrimination against its own minorities, India is in no position to pontificate on the issue of terrorism or minority rights elsewhere,\u201d said FO spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudri in a statement.
\nThe statement comes after India had called the killing of an elderly Ahmadi man in Peshawar earlier this week a \u201csad reflection of the state of minorities in Pakistan\u201d.
\n\u201cOne after another, Ahmadis are being targeted in Peshawar while the government has repeatedly failed to protect and stop the violence against the members of the community,\u201d the Indian spokesman said, according to The Wire.
\n\u201cRegurgitation of fabricated accusations by India does not turn a falsehood into truth,\u201d the FO spokesman said in the statement issued today.
\n\u201cSuch desperate attempts will not succeed in diverting attention from India\u2019s domestic and foreign policy failures. If anything, these will further undermine India\u2019s credibility as a responsible country.
\n\u201cIndia must eschew the use of state terrorism as an instrument of state policy, end its egregious violations of human rights of the Kashmiri people, resolve the Jammu and Kashmir dispute according to UN Security Council resolutions, and take concrete steps to safeguard minorities, including their right to life and protection of their places of worship,\u201d Chaudhri said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Monitoring Desk Islamabad Islamabad on Friday rejected the \u201cgratuitous remarks\u201d by the spokesperson for the Indian Ministry of External Affairs regarding the state of minorities in Pakistan and baseless allegations regarding terrorism. \u201cAs a perpetrator of unabated state terrorism in occupied Kashmir and systemic state-sponsored discrimination against its own minorities, India is in no position […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"\n