NAM Meet: Riposting fiercely India shuts down Pakistan for glorifying violence and harboring terrorism
Azerbaijan, April 5: Riposting austerely in a befitting reply to Pakistan after it scratched up Kashmir issue during Non-Aligned Movement Conference, Indian Diplomat Priyanka Mehtani slammed Pakistan for promoting cross-border terrorism and harbouring territorial ambitions in their soil.
Addressing the NAM mid-term Ministerial Meeting held in Baku, Azerbaijan, Priyanka Mehtani called that “My simple response to Pakistan is a neighbour - heal thy self. Glorifying violence, promoting cross-border terrorism, harbouring territorial ambitions against the territorial integrity of neighbours are all methodologies of those who live in yesterday's world."
When Pakistan tried to incite the Kashmir issue during NAM Meet, Priyanka Mehtani said that Jammu & Kashmir is an inalienable an integral part of India and will remain so.
The Special Assistant to Prime Minister of Pakistan on Media Affairs Dr Musadik Masood Malik made the unnecessary remarks regarding alleged "atrocities" in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Retorting to it in a sharp response, the Indian diplomat said in her statement addressed to the Chairman that: Pakistan is promoting its self-serving propaganda about the Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir.
Calling the act a self-serving "propaganda", she said that Pakistan showed complete "disregard of the NAM's core values of mutual equality, mutual respect and mutual cooperation that have brought the members together.
While NAM’S agenda is to serve for world security and peace, Mehtani urged not to divert from the NAM agenda; she said, even as everyone has focused the energies, to address the relentless forces of change that make our working together imperative, a sole voice from the wilderness, Pakistan, has ventured to sound a discordant note.
Earlier, while addressing the NAM mid-term ministerial meeting, External Affairs Miniter Sushma Swaraj pledged for combating terrorism unitedly. She said terrorism maims and kills ‘our citizens’ and undermines the ability to attain development goals. India remains committed to the shared goal of the global elimination of nuclear weapons.