FM advises Delhi to focus on domestic issues.

Byline: Kashif Abbasi

ISLAMABAD -- While Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi advised the Modi-led government on Sunday to focus on its domestic issues rather than behaving like an 'expansionist nation', the Foreign Office strongly condemned and categorically rejected Indian defence minister's remarks about the situation in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJ and K) and Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

Mr Qureshi tweeted: 'Perhaps with necessary introspection, the current Indian government would be less focused on igniting border disputes with every neighbour, behaving like an expansionist nation, and more focused on serving the poor, downtrodden and minorities of India better,' he said.

'It would serve PM Modi's government and 'neighbourhood first' policy well to realise India's neighbours pose far less of a problem than their own domestic inadequacies, failures and fascism,' he said.

The foreign minister's tweet comes a day after Prime Minister Imran Khan's offer to the neighbouring country for sharing the success story of his Ehsaas cash programme initiative to help the country's poor, particularly during the coronavirus pandemic.

Pakistan rejects Indian defence minister's remarks about situation in occupied Kashmir, AJK

Various studies have pointed out that income of 84 per cent of the households in India has declined because of Covid-19. Besides the economic setback, the pandemic has also fuelled hate against Indian Muslims, who are being falsely accused by the right-wing Hindu extremists of spreading coronavirus in India.

Meanwhile, India is also in boarder disputes with its neighbours, including Pakistan, China and Nepal. Pakistan has been accusing India of resorting to firing along the Line of Control.

In a statement, the Foreign Office strongly condemned the Indian defence minister's delusional remarks about the situation in occupied Kashmir and AJK.

'Pakistan strongly condemns and categorically rejects Indian defence minister's remarks about the situation in IOJ and K and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) through a video address to 'Jammu Jan Samvad rally' today,' said the statement. It said the Indian defence minister's statement was another manifestation of the BJP government's delusions about AJK and incurable obsession with Pakistan.

'It has been clear to the people of Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan, and the international community, from the outset, that the motive behind the RSS-inspired BJP government's illegal and...