Pakistan’s Foreign Office had earlier today expressed its concern over the protests against Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri and Ghulam Ali and had asked New Delhi indirectly to take steps to prevent a repeat of such incidents.
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After Pakistan raised concerns over the recent incidents in India – the cancellation of Pakistani legendary singer Ghulam Ali’s concert and an attempt by Shiv Sena to disrupt the book launch of former Pakistan minister Khurshid Kasuri – India has hit back asking Pakistan to “stop sermonising us about tolerance”.
Responding to Islamabad’s statement over the “disruption of events organised for prominent Pakistani personalities in India”, the Centre lashed out saying it does not need a “lecture” as the hostile neighbour is not an “embodiment of tolerance”. “If India has a shortcoming, it’s able to taking care of it”, stated a prime official supply.
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“The issue is that there has to be a recognition that terrorism can not be an instrument of statecraft and you can not say it was only Gurudaspur attack, why are you overreacting or an attack on BSF, why are you overreacting. We were still open to having NSA-level talks and there was no lack of clarity on that”, the sources said. They did not dispute it. But obviously their domestic politics took them in a different direction from the Ufa. One country can not resort to terrorism as a way of pressurising the other. “It is of course futile to hope that those two countries will come together ever again, but perhaps it is not futile to hope that the two countries (India and Pakistan) will learn to beat in harmony”, Shah added.
