Pakistan urges India to focus more on its domestic concerns.

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi took to Twitter on Sunday to urge the Indian government to focus more on its domestic concerns instead of 'behaving like an expansionist nation'.

"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," the foreign minister said. He called for 'necessary introspection' by the Indian government, saying it might help it serve India's minorities and downtrodden better. The minister urged for a shift in focus away from 'igniting border disputes with every neighbour'.

Qureshi's comments come days after the Indian ministry of external affairs rejected Prime Minister Imran Khan's offer to assist India with cash disbursement among citizens in the country who were hit hard by the coronavirus lockdown.

"Pakistan would do well to recall that they have a debt problem which covers 90% of their GDP. As far as India goes, our stimulus package is as large as the GDP of Pakistan," MEA spokesperson Anurag Srivastava had said.

Islamabad had regretted India's response to what it called PM Imran's 'goodwill' gesture.

The recent verbal sparring between the two countries comes against the back-drop of tensions between India and China, and the prevalent contentions between India and Pakistan over the issue of Indian-held Kashmir. According to a...