ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Thursday said India and its intelligenceagencies “are involved in money-laundering and financial crimes in Pakistanto sponsor terrorism”.
Spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri, at a weekly press briefing, said theBharatia Janta Party (BJP) regime had once again revealed the true face ofIndia before the world by pursuing the heinous agenda of “sponsoringterrorism and extremism”.
He drew the world’s attention towards the policies of political leadershipof India, which, as the “so-called largest democracy”, had been fullyexposed.
The spokesperson said the situation in India-occupied Jammu and Kashmircontinues to deteriorate for the last 423 days since the unilateral actionof the Indian government to change the valley’s special status.
He said that last week Indian occupation forces martyred another sixKashmiris in fake encounters and so-called search operations in Pulwama andAnantnag.
“India, however, will not be able to succeed in subjugating the Kashmiripeople through killings and abductions,” he said.
Chaudhri said Pakistan would continue to apprise the world about India’scrimes against the Kashmiri people.
He said India had escalated tensions along the Line of Control to divertthe world’s attention from its atrocities in occupied Kashmir.
During the current year, India has committed 2,404 ceasefire violationsthat have claimed 19 lives and seriously injured others, he added.Extension in visa for iqama holders
On Saudi Arabia’s permission for Pakistani iqama-holders, he said the Saudigovernment, on the request of Pakistan, had allowed people to apply for anextension in visa even from its embassy in Islamabad.
The process can be initiated after the requisite approval of kafeels,including companies and private persons.
In case of a private person as a kafeel, he said iqamas could be extendedthrough an online website called ”Abshar”.
The Saudi authorities have also cleared 47 out of 118 PakistanInternational Airlines (PIA) flights for the month of October, thespokesperson said.PM’s UNGA address, India’s actions
About Prime Minister Imran Khan’s address at the United Nations GeneralAssembly, he said Pakistan’s perspective was shared on all major regionaland international issues, including the COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister’sDebt Relief Initiative for developing countries, the Jammu and Kashmirdispute, treatment of minorities in India, the Palestine issue, the Afghanpeace process, illicit financial flows, climate change, Islamophobia, andthe United Nations reforms.
He said that foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi had addressed anotherletter to the UN Security Council president as part of efforts to apprisethe world body of the grave situation in occupied Kashmir as well as peaceand security in the region.
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In his letter, he said, the foreign minister highlighted gross andsystematic violations of human rights in the occupied region, India’sillegal measures to change its demographic structure, and the threat topeace and security posed by its belligerent rhetoric and actions.
The spokesperson said the recent crackdown against Amnesty International bythe Indian government was another manifestation of its extremist agenda andintolerance to the truth being told by independent human rightsorganisations.
The BJP regime’s action, he said, had once again revealed the true face ofIndia.
“The so-called largest democracy stands fully exposed,” he said.
The spokesperson also condemned the shameful acquittal of all 32 criminalsresponsible for demolishing the centuries-old Babri Masjid in Ayodhya in1992.
Responding to a question regarding the so-called “neighbourhood firstpolicy” of India, Zahid Chaudhri said: “No such policy exists and it isonly a facade.”
The current Indian leadership, he said, was in fact guided by the Chanakyadoctrine, deeply imbedded in the rank and file of the BJP-RSS (RashtriyaSwayamsevak Sangh) combine.
He said according to the Chanakya doctrine, “your immediate neighbour isyour natural enemy as he covets your territory and resources, and ispositioned to take them if he is more powerful than you”.
That dangerous indoctrination of the Indian leadership, he said, was asource of concern for all immediate neighbours of India.
He said in the interest of regional peace and security, the current Indianleadership would be well-advised to abandon the 3rd Century BC doctrine andinstead learn from the post-World War II political history of the worldwhere immediate neighbours contributed immensely to each other’ssocio-economic development and security.
Responding to a question about Pakistan’s offer of arranging a meeting ofIndian spy Kulbhushan Jadav with his father and wife, Chaudhri saidPakistan’s offer was still there.
“Unfortunately, we have got no response from Indian authorities so far,” hesaid.