Indian defense capabilities were exposed in Balakot: FO
FO spokesperson said India today is known as a sponsor of state terrorism
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Foreign Office Spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri on Friday while slamming the Indian government said that it should look into its defense capabilities that were exposed in Balakot.
Addressing weekly press briefing in Islamabad on Friday, he said that the statements made by the top Indian civil and military leadership in hostility to Pakistan pose a threat to regional peace, adding that the Indian army chief must remember the embarrassment in Ladakh and Balakot when making such statements.
Zahid Chaudhri that the New Delhi should adhere to the conditions of the 21st century instead of the Chanakya doctrine of the third century, adding that India should remember that the Pakistani people and forces are always ready to deal with any miss adventure.
The spokesperson said India s state terrorism is getting more and more exposed with every passing day and its façade of being the largest democracy stands fully exposed. India is known as a sponsor of state terrorism, he said.
He said recently, we have seen many international endorsements and acknowledgements of what India has been doing in the region and how India has been imperiling regional peace and security.
“Pakistan has been consistently sensitizing the world community about the true face of India as a Hindu extremist state,” he added.
About the Indian Air Force Chief’s recent irresponsible statement regarding India being ready for a “two-front war” with China and Pakistan, he said,“Such provocative statements are a true reflection of RSS-BJP mindset, a dangerous mix of extremist ideology and hegemonic designs.
“It is ironic that, certain senior Indian political and military leaders continue to make a career out of issuing provocative statements against Pakistan at the cost of putting regional peace and security as well as India’s own security at risk,” he added.
The spokesperson said while making such braggadocio, the Indian Air Force Chief must not forget India’s defence limitations, so embarrassingly exposed to the world, first during its misadventure in Balakot and more recently in Ladakh.
About the situation in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), Zahid Chaudhri said the Kashmiris were continuously subjected to an unprecedented brutal military siege and inhuman restrictions for 431 days since India’s illegal and unilateral actions of August 5, 2019.
In September alone, he said, the Indian occupation forces martyred 19 more Kashmiris, including a woman, in “fake encounters” and so-called “cordon-and-search” operations.
“The occupation forces also injured at least 16 peaceful protestors, arbitrarily detained 88 Kashmiri youth, and destroyed 14 houses to inflict collective punishment on the Kashmiri communities,” he added.
The spokesperson said in their latest act of state terrorism, the Indian occupation forces martyred two more Kashmiri youth in staged cordon and search operations in Shopian on October 7, 2020.
“The cold-blooded murders of innocent Kashmiris are a clear manifestation of the state terrorism to which unarmed Kashmiris have been subjected to for the past seven decades,” he maintained.
Recalling the extra-judicial killing of three innocent Kashmiri laborers in a staged “cordon and search” operation in Shopian on July 18, 2020, the FO spokesperson referred to a statement issued by the Indian Army on September 18, in which they “confessed that the powers vested under the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) were exceeded”.
“On 3rd October, the Indian authorities exhumed and handed over the mortal remains of those innocent Kashmiri boys to their families,” he added.
The spokesperson said the acknowledgment of war crimes in the IIOJK by the Indian Army, was a sad reminder of Pakistan`s consistent sensitization to the world community about India`s serious crimes against the Kashmiri people.
