Sushma Swaraj: Pakistan’s dream of Kashmir will not be realised till end of eternity

“Behind Pakistan’s unabashed embrace and encouragement to terrorism lies its delusional though dangerous dream that ‘Kashmir will one day become Pakistan’, as Prime Minister Sharif said yesterday. The whole of India would like to tell 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, flanked by Ministers of State M J Akbar and General (retd) V K Singh.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister, she said, says his good wishes are with the people of Kashmir. “Sadly, it’s not Pakistan’s good wishes or moral or diplomatic support but its weapons and terrorism that it has exported to Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistan’s dirty money, dangerous terrorists and duplicitous state institutions seek to destabilise the region. The statement of none other than the Prime Minister of Pakistan has betrayed this despicable design. But I would like to repeat that this dream of Pakistan will never be fulfilled,” she said.

She said the leadership of Pakistan, including its Prime Minister, praised Burhan Wani, a wanted terrorist commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen, as a martyr. “He was carrying an award of Rs 10 lakh on his head because he had perpetrated heinous crimes, including murder of elected representatives of local bodies and security forces/personnel,” she said.

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“Even more condemnable than these deplorable attempts from across our border to incite violence and glorify terrorists is the fact that 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,” she said.

She took on Pakistan for its comments on human rights violations in Kashmir. “The country which has used fighter planes and artillery against millions of its own people has no right whatsoever to point a finger against our brave, professional and disciplined police and other security forces. Their restraint and respect for their fellow citizens is evident in the unusually high number of the injured personnel — more than 1700 — in the violence unleashed with the support from across the border in Jammu and Kashmir,” she said.