India desperate to divert attention from human rights violations in IoK: FO.

ISLAMABAD -- Foreign Office Spokesperson Aisha Farooqui has said that India s latest action to seek fifty percent reduction in the staff strength of Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi has been a part of India s desperate attempts to divert attention from its state-terrorism and worst human rights violations in occupied Kashmir.

She said India would be better advised to focus on its internal and external issues, rather than creating diversions at the cost of peace and stability in South Asia.

The Spokesperson said Pakistan has been consistently sensitizing the world community that irresponsible policies of the BJP government are increasingly imperiling regional peace and stability.

She said our diplomats and officials have always functioned within the parameters of international law and diplomatic norms.

The Spokesperson categorically rejected and strongly condemned the baseless allegations made by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs as a pretext to seek 50 percent reduction in the staff strength of the High Commission for Pakistan...