Sharif’s K-dream delusional: Swaraj

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, July 23

India today vigorously rejected Pakistan’s ‘despicable design’, emphasising that the country would never be able to realise its dream  of taking over Kashmir and labelled Pakistan as a country seeking to destabilise the region.

In one of the most hard-hitting statements in recent times, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said behind Pakistan’s unabashed embrace and encouragement to terrorism lay its delusional though dangerous dream that “Kashmir will one day become Pakistan”, as stated by Pakistan Prime Minister Sharif yesterday.

“The whole of India would like to tell the Prime Minister of Pakistan that this dream will not be realised even at the end of eternity. The whole of Jammu and Kashmir belongs to India. You will never be able to make this heaven on earth a haven for terrorists.” 

Swaraj said Pakistan, that used fighter planes and artillery guns against its own people, could not pontificate to India on the brave work being done by its security forces.

“The country which has used fighter planes and artillery against millions of its own people has no right whatsoever to point a finger at our brave, professional and disciplined police and security forces. Their restraint and respect for fellow citizens is evident in the unusually high number of injured personnel — more than 1,700 — in the violence unleashed with the support from across the border in Jammu and Kashmir,” she said.

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India’s reaction came in the backdrop of the developments in Islamabad after the killing of Hizbul militant Burhan Wani, who carried a reward of Rs 10 lakh on his head. 

Swaraj said what was even more condemnable was the “deplorable attempts from across our border to incite violence and glorify terrorists. These attempts have been undertaken by Pakistan’s state machinery in active partnership with UN-designated terrorist Hafiz Saeed and other leading terrorists belonging to internationally proscribed organisations.”