Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD:Pakistan on Thursday calling out India’s continued policies of coercion, extrajudicial killings and marginalisation of minorities, said that no amount of bluster could divert attention or conceal India’s role in the disruption of peace, exporting terrorism into Pakistan, and interference in the internal affairs of neighboring states.“New Delhi’s fixation on Pakistan cannot conceal its own role as a serial disruptor of peace. India has carried out extrajudicial killings abroad, interfered in the internal political affairs of neighbouring states, exported terrorism into Pakistan…For smaller states in the region, India too has been a source of coercion rather than cooperation while minorities within its borders face escalating intimidation and repression,” Foreign Office spokesperson Tahir Andrabi said in his weekly press briefing.Rejecting the recent statement by the Indian External Affairs Minister against Pakistan, he said that India’s record as a neighbour was marked by the promotion of terrorism and contributions to regional instability and the statement constituted a blatant attempt to divert attention from the recently surfaced documentary evidence indicating that New Delhi sought a third country’s intervention to secure a ceasefire with Pakistan during the May conflict.The spokesperson also condemned the demolition of Faiz-e-Elahi mosque in India, which reflected a very systemic and deliberate campaign by the RSS-BJP nexus to target and erase the Muslim heritage across India, also referring to the destruction of Babri Mosque in 1992 by extremist mobs.
