Division of Pakistan ‘is a lunatic’s dream’

Nisar takes a jibe at Indian counterpart

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Interior and Narcotics Control Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan taking a jibe at his Indian counterpart said that the Bhatariya Janata Party’s (BJP) scheme to divide Pakistan was a ‘lunatic’s dream that would never be fulfilled’.

Reacting to the threat of India’s Home Minister Rajnath Singh of dividing Pakistan into 10 pieces, the interior minister said nobody else had to make an effort to divide India on the basis of religion in BJP’s presence.



Singh on Sunday in a thinly veiled reference to Pakistan had stated that if Islamabad does not stop cross-border terrorism, it will soon be in 10 pieces.

He said Pakistan was not dividing India on the basis of religion but it was being divided owing to the BJP-led government’s policies.

“How a party and government in India which is based on religious fanaticism, divisiveness, hate and violence, can level allegations against Pakistan,” he questioned.



He said the Indian government could not accuse others of terrorism ‘as its hands were stained with the blood of Kashmiris’ and the state’s oppression was its policy.

The minister said under the incumbent BJP government all minorities were in great danger and fearful as life was made difficult for them.

“The government of India created a wall of hate among different religions for its nefarious designs,” he added.

Chaudhry Nisar said India had turned into a battlefield and incident of Babri Masjid and anti-Muslim and anti-minorities riots in India in the last few years were clear indication of the present government’s political and official policy.

He said under state patronage, opponents were tortured, faces of people were blackened and minorities were killed in India.

“These anti-minority policies of the Indian government had scared Muslims and other minorities,” Nisar stated.



The minister said the cause of terrorism was not Pakistan but India where human rights were violated and oppression and violence, and religious hatred were part of state policy.

Nisar said India admitted that it openly interfered in Balochistan and other parts of the country.

‘Irresponsible behaviour’

Condemning the recent anti-Pakistan tirade of Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Islamabad has said the irresponsible statements by Indian leadership pose threat to regional peace.

“The irresponsible statements by Indian leadership pose threat to regional peace,” said the Additional Secretary Foreign Affairs Tasnim Aslam while addressing a seminar in Islamabad on Tuesday.

She said India is developing atomic submarines and also is resorting to unprovoked firing on the Line of Control (LoC) and the Working Boundary. “In these circumstances, Pakistan has no option but to keep itself ready for defence,” she said, adding that Pakistan is maintaining minimum deterrence.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 14^th, 2016.