Sushma Swaraj said Pakistan had no right to point fingers at India over the unrest in Kashmir.
Highlights
- Sushma Swaraj responds to Pak PM Nawaz Sharif on Kashmir remarks
- Pakistan in 'unabashed emrbace of terrorism', uses 'dirty money'
- Pak can "dream to the end of eternity" of Kashmir being its: Sushma
In its sharpest remarks on Pakistan in recent months, India today accused Islamabad of an "unabashed embrace of terrorism" and warned that its stated goal of detaching Kashmir from India will "not be realised to the end of eternity."
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unflinching censure came from Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj and was levelled directly at Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for instigating the recent violence in Jammu and Kashmir where nearly 50 people have died and 3,000 been injured in clashes after the shooting of 22-year-old terrorist Burhan Wani.
The Pakistani Prime Minister and his top ministers have eulogised Wani who was shot dead on July 8, triggering a searing cycle of violence - the worst in six years - in the Kashmir Valley with thousands of people, many of them young stone-pelting protesters, defying curfew to retaliate against security forces.
Last week, Mr Sharif called for protest against what Islamabad has described at the United Nations and elsewhere as India's blatant violation of human rights in Kashmir.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh told parliament this week that Pakistan has sponsored the unrest; all opposition parties have backed India's stand - a cohesion praised recently by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"All of Kashmir belongs to India," Ms Swaraj said today. Her ministry recently said in a statement that Pakistan should withdraw from the parts of Kashmir it has illegally occupied.
Wani who belonged to Kashmir's largest terror group, the Hizbul Mujahideen, used social media effectively and expansively to recruit young men like himself who accuse the state of indiscriminate force in dealing with dissent.
With hundreds of civilians being treated for eye injuries caused by pellets from non-lethal weapons, the Home Minister has said that security forces have been urged to proceed with caution. Ms Swaraj said today that 1,700 personnel of the police and other forces have also been injured in recent days.