*ISLAMABAD – **Pakistan gives a strong diplomatic snub to India over theIndian External Affairs Ministry’s lecture to Pakistani Prime Minister overso called Indian diplomatic norms. *
*Pakistan Foreign Office has categorically rejected comments made by theIndian Ministry of External Affairs’ (MEA) spokesperson about PrimeMinister Imran Khan’s statements and other Kashmir and Pakistan-relatedissues.*
“Exposing India’s egregious behavior and state-terrorism in Indian OccupiedJammu and Kashmir is part of our international obligations and our moralresponsibility to the Kashmiri victims of Indian repression,” a statementissued by the FO read.
“If India feels provoked, it is only because India is unwilling to face thetruth about its indefensible actions that are driven by the toxic mix of anextremist ideology and hegemonic ambitions,” it added.
Equally reprehensible are India’s pretensions of casting itself as a‘normal’ country, the FO said.
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“The international community would like to ask as to what normal countrycages 8 million people in an inhuman lockdown for over two months anddeceives the world by claiming that everything is fine,” it said.
Similarly, the Foreign Office asked what normal country provides space andpolitical patronage to the perpetrators of mob lynching by cow vigilantesand repugnant schemes like “gharwapsi and love Jihad?”
“India would be well-advised to keep its lectures on diplomacy andnormality to itself. All we would like to stress is, ‘Physician, healthyself!”
