India condemns Pakistan’s collusion in fostering radicalism, rabble-rousing
London: India on Wednesday reiterated its help for Europe and the worldwide neighborhood towards terrorism and blasted Pakistan for clear collusion in fostering a stage of radicalism and rabble-rousing.
Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla, who’s in London on the final leg of his three-nation European tour which included France and Germany, praised UK Home Secretary Priti Patel for her foresight in pre-emptively taking precautions and elevating the UK’s terrorism alert stage to extreme within the wake of the assaults in France and Austria, as radicalism and terrorism know no “borders or limits”.
“We are full with Europe at this time of crisis. We believe the international community has to work together to address issues of radicalism and terrorism. Much of it comes from our own region,” mentioned Shringla, in reference to cross-border terrorism emanating from Pakistan. “We also don’t believe that these are lone wolf attacks. There are organisations, groups and even countries that support this effort. We have seen the statement by Imran Khan, in which he says we have to teach the Western nations on how to deal with its minorities. This is rich coming from a theological state that has systematically eliminated its minorities over time,” he mentioned.
“So, this is something that has clear collusion between countries like Pakistan, even Turkey, in fostering a level of radicalism, cynically manipulating public perception and outlook to create a sense of insecurity and basically indulge in rabble-rousing that could be to the detriment of countries like ours democratic, secular, heterogeneous societies that have every respect for the interests of minorities. And, the countries that actually persecute their minorities are those that are today trying to tell us what to do,” he added.
During an interplay with representatives of Indian and British media organisations, Shringla was additionally requested in regards to the wider state of affairs in its neighbourhood, together with elections in Gilgit-Baltistan later this month and the state of affairs in Afghanistan. He expressed India’s deep concern over the Afghan Taliban “systematically assassinating” reasonable figures and leaders, backed up by “certain intelligence agencies” and condemned Pakistan’s “cynical use” of the nation for its personal ends.
He mentioned, “There are un-administered zones in Afghanistan now which have the presence of, not simply Al Qaeda and Daesh, but in addition Hizbul Mujahideen and Lashkar-e-Taiba these are teams that usually function in India however clearly they’re being pushed into Afghanistan to be able to say that they do not exist in Pakistan.
“This is Pakistan’s cynical use of Afghanistan for what they call strategic depth. We don’t believe that it is anyone’s interest to lose the gains of the last 19 years; gains in terms of the Afghan Constitution, the Afghan national security and defence forces, rights of women and minorities, everything that all of us have lost blood for,” he mentioned.
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“We have invested over USD 3 billion in stabilising Afghanistan and bringing peace and development and at this point of time, we see it all going downhill. Afghanistan is a matter of great concern,” he added. The Gilgit-Baltistan election he dismissed as Pakistan’s try and “whitewash”, a transfer towards which India has recorded a proper protest.
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