New Delhi:Pakistan's unending obsession with India continues at various global platforms. In the latest, Pakistan's education minister Shafqat Mahmood raised the Ayodhya verdict and Kashmir issues at the 40th session of the General Conference at UNESCO. For which, it received a befitting response from Indian official at the event held in France's Paris.
While speaking to ETV Bharat on why Pakistan is so obsessed with India's internal matters, former Ambassador of India Anil Trigunayat reiterated the government of India's stand and called it a pathological problem of Islamabad.
"It has become a pathological problem of Pakistan that they comment about everything and anything related to India. They are obsessed with India. Their foreign and security policies are entirely India centric and that too in a negative manner. By making the noise, they want to make their relevance felt especially to those who are pro to these things," the former ambassador said.
Former Amb Anil Trigunayat He asserted that India should stop reacting to whatever Pakistan says as it gets more encouragement when centre reacts to their fabricated lies and even claimed that nobody in the global community listens to Pakistan.
After Pakistan's Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood expressed his dismay at the Indian Supreme Court's decision on Babri Mosque which he said was not in line with UNESCO's values of religious freedom, India, at UNESCO meet slammed Pakistan over comments on Ayodhya verdict, Kashmir.
India lambasted at Pakistan's juvenile propaganda over the Supreme Court's historic verdict on Ayodhya land dispute and Kashmir's transformation into union territories, saying the 'fabricated lies is interference in India's internal affairs.'
"Mr President, we take this chair to refute Pakistan's juvenile propaganda to malign India through fabricated lies, full of deceit and deception. We condemn the unwarranted comments made by Pakistan on the judgment made by the Supreme Court of India. The judgment is about the rule of law, equal respect for all faiths, concepts that are alien to Pakistan and its ethos," an Indian official said while addressing the 40th UNESCO General Conference - General Policy Debate.
"So, while Pakistan's lack of comprehension is not surprising their pathological compulsion to comment on our internal affairs with the obvious interest of spreading hatred is condemnable. Pakistan's intervention is interference in India's internal affairs. It is unacceptable and rejected," she added.
This came after Pakistan Education Minister told the chair, "We are therefore dismayed to see that the highest court in India to virtually condone the destruction of centuries-old mosques sacred to Muslims. The international community should take note of this injustice. "
Post India's decision to abrogate Article 370 which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan has been relentlessly raising this issue at every platform. Even Pakistan PM Imran Khan has used several global platforms including the UNGA to raise this issue time and again.
Meanwhile, lashing out at Pakistan over its time and again rhetoric on Kashmir, the Indian official said, "The Union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh have always been ours and shall always be an integral part of India and this includes the territory that is currently under the illegal and forcible occupation of Pakistan."
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