ISLAMABAD – Pakistan on Thursday asked India to put its own house in orderrather than accusing Pakistan and its intelligence agencies for every otherhappening.
“India should grow up and stop blaming Pakistan for everything,” ForeignOffice Spokesman Muhammad Faisal said at a weekly press briefing here atthe Foreign Office.
Responding to reports of India accusing Pakistan of backing the recentKhalistan movement in Canada, the Spokesman said, India would benefit moreby putting its own house in order and addressing the atrocious maltreatmentof Indian minorities rather than attacking the imaginary shadows”.
“Whether it is a flood or a plague, India puts a blame on ISI (InterServices Intelligence),” he said, and added that this practice was nothingnew and Pakistan passed through this experience for long in the past aswell.
The Spokesman said the tendency of Indian media to make false allegationsagainst Pakistan could only be considered “elusive”.
“Instead, India should immediately halt its continuing atrocities in IOKwhere curfews and suspended communication are a norm and innocent Kashmiriwomen are harassed and raped with impunity in the guise of search andcordon operations,” he said.
To a question of Indian claim of over 1,400 ceasefire violations at borderby Pakistan, he said in fact the 30 persons were martyred and 120 injuredat Pakistani side.
He mentioned that the report of UN’s Office of High Commission on HumanRights was a clear manifestation on Indian violations and urged upon Indiato let the Inquiry Commission monitor the ceasefire violations.
He said it was a standard practice of the Pakistan’s Foreign Office toshare with UN Security Council the data on ceasefire violations by Indiaevery December.
On reports of alleged involvement of Pakistanis in the Ghazni attack inAfghanistan, the Spokesman said, “We have not received any evidence to backup the spurious accusations and we reject these baseless allegations”.
Regarding the ceasefire at Pak-Afghan border, he said Pakistan repeatedlycalled for pursuing an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned process, seeking apolitical solution to the issue.
He said the fencing of Pak-Afghan border would take over two years tocomplete and added that Pakistan was fencing the border with the objectiveof regulating the movement of men and material as part of the country’scounter-terrorism efforts for long-term regional stability.
On repatriation of Afghan refugees, he said a delegation from the Afghangovernment would soon visit Islamabad to work out the details.
On the much-delayed SAARC summit for over two years, he said Pakistan wasready to host the summit for the progress on regional matters.
About the attack on Pakistani student in Australia, he said the ForeignOffice was in touch with the Australian High Commission in Islamabadregarding the well-being of the assailed student and a strong protest wasalso registered over the incident.
When sought update on the assistance by the United States, the Spokesmansaid all security assistance had been suspended and the particular trainingprogramme – International Military Education Training (IMET) – forPakistani military officers was also affected by this. – APP