Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar said on Wednesday that \u201cno country had used terrorism better than India\u201d as she called on the international community to take note of New Delhi\u2019s attempts to destabilise Pakistan.
\nDuring a press conference in Islamabad, the minister said that India\u2019s objective was to undermine Pakistan\u2019s peace and security through terrorism, saying \u201cno country had used terrorism better than India\u201d.
\n\u201cTo play on the back of the attention of the world on terrorism and to play the victim, no country has benefitted from it better than India.\u201d
\nShe went on to say that India was portraying itself as a champion of counter-terrorism even though it had not made no contributions in this regard and paid only lip service.
\n\u201cIf you compare Pakistan and India, you will find Pakistan to always be at the forefront of counter-terrorism, of ensuring that we are a player in the world to try and make sure terrorism does not continue to haunt us.\u201d
\nKhar began her press conference by saying that terrorism posed a serious threat to peace, adding that Pakistan had been at the receiving end of this scourge for long.
\n\u201cI wish I was here to be talking to you how South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) is prospering, how regional connectivity is happening [\u2026] we are at a unique place where perpetrators of terrorism are projecting themselves to be the greatest victims of terrorism.
\n\u201cAs perpetrators of terrorism are drum-beating as United Nations Security Council (UNSC) presidents to talk about terrorism from imaginary sources. And we are also at a unique place because no one is willing to call the bluff, to call out the clear, simple, glaring hypocrisy.\u201d
\nShe said that when there was \u201cundeniable, indisputable\u201d evidence, it was necessary to \u201ccall a spade a spade\u201d.
\n\u201cThis particular effort is to bring attention to the attention of the world and to expect them and encourage them to see things based on evidence.\u201d
\nShe highlighted that Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah had already held a press conference a day earlier on the blast in Lahore\u2019s Johar Town in 2021. She said earlier in the day, the foreign secretary called the diplomatic corp and shared a \u201cdossier\u201d, containing evidence of India\u2019s involvement in the incident, with them.
\n\u201cThis dossier, as you already know, has details, evidence of how India has found to be fully behind this particular incident which led to the loss of lives. And we do not, unlike our neighbours, go the next day and blame one country or the other. We waited till we had strong hard evidence to be making the case we are making today.\u201d
\nTaking about the Lahore blast, she said there was clear evidence of the terrorist attack being \u201cplanned and supported\u201d by India. \u201cIt reflects India\u2019s persistent hostility towards my country and the use of terrorist proxies to achieve terrorist objectives.\u201d
\nKhar went on to say that some of the perpetrators of the attack had been brought to justice, but also said that the \u201cmasterminds and the facilitators\u201d remained at large and \u201cunder Indian state patronage and protection\u201d.
\n\u201cI can assure you that the government of government of Pakistan will pursue this relentlessly at every level.\u201d
\nShe highlighted that India continued to operate as a \u201crogue state\u201d. \u201cA country that tries to deny the existence of UNSC resolutions [\u2026] shows what type of a mindset this country has.\u201d
\nShe went on to say that India had been paralysing the UNSC sanctions regime by blocking listing of Indian terrorists actively aided and financed by the Indian state. She also shared the names of four Indian nationals the listing of whose names was blocked, namely Govinda Patnaik, Parthas Arti, Rajesh Kumar and Mr Dumgara.
\n\u201cI don\u2019t think I need to remind anyone that India has had a role in destabilising its neighbouring countries and weaken their economies to try and pursue its hegemonic designs in the region,\u201d she said, adding that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and Balochistan were two examples of this.
\nThe minister also reminded India that there could not be \u201cislands of excellence in a sea of depravity\u201d. \u201cSo when you try and harm your region, you actually end up harming yourself.\u201d
\nThe minister said India was \u201cfrustrated\u201d after Pakistan was removed from the Financial Action Taskforce\u2019s (FATF) so-called grey list. \u201cThey have completely mastered the art of using international organisations for their political gains [\u2026] India remains the recruiter, the financier and the facilitator of various terrorist outfits and foreign terrorist fighters in the region.\u201d
\nShe said India was chairing UNSC meetings on terrorism and beating the drum on the issue but had now been caught \u201cred-handed\u201d orchestrating terrorist attacks in Pakistan. She called on India to desist from pursuing this policy and to look at the region as it was.
\n\u201cIndia\u2019s unabated slip into the abyss of terrorism is being clouded by this growing India, emerging India narrative.\u201d
\nShe said that the international community, particularly the UN and FATF, had the responsibility now to hold India accountable for its terrorist actions.
\n\u201cWe are looking for accountability. The Lahore incident, for us, is a test case for the credibility and integrity of international counter-terrorism and counter financing of terrorist regimes. The world must show that efforts to counter-terrorism are non-discriminating. The international conscience cannot be held hostage to what are clearly political and economic exigencies of the time.\u201d
\nShe said that Pakistan had shared the dossier with members of the UNSC and would also share it with the UN secretary general. \u201cWe hope that they would look into this evidence and fulfill their responsibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar said on Wednesday that \u201cno country had used terrorism better than India\u201d as she called on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3629,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news-updates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}