India planning strike against Pakistan: Qureshi Discusses Pakistani diaspora's travails, ties with UAE counterpart.

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Friday said that India was planning to launch a surgical strike against Pakistan. It is trying to seek 'tacit approval' from important international players, who it considered its 'partners' to divert attention away from its worsening domestic situation.

Addressing a press conference in Abu Dhabi, the foreign minister said India's irrational approach

was driven by its frustration emanating from internal unrest due to the RSS-BJP regime's policies aimed at the subjugation of religious minorities and disadvantaged segment of the society.

'India is planning a false flag operation... we are well aware about the Indian designs. We have credible intelligence about Indian plans to stage false flag operation,' he said.

'I want to share all this information with the UAE government and rest of the world,' he added.

The ongoing farmers' protests in Punjab, Qureshi said, was a 'country-wide protest' resulting from 'the policies of this regime, the BJP regime'. He said the protest was growing, with various segments of India such as 'opposition parties, lawyers, civil society and trade unions' expressing their support for it.

'The mishandling of the coronavirus by Indian authorities is known to everyone. The impact that it is having on their economy is known to all.'

The situation of the minorities in India, the foreign minister said, was also 'increasingly uncomfortable', referring to the protests in Assam and the situation of Dalits, Sikhs and Muslims.

Qureshi said 'Pakistan is fully prepared to respond to and defeat India's designs.' We...