The Foreign Office (FO) on Sunday rejected what it described as “highly inflammatory, baseless and irresponsible” remarks made by Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar regarding Pakistan’s armed forces. In a strongly worded statement, the FO said the comments were “misleading” and reflective of India’s broader campaign to malign Pakistan’s state institutions.
Jaishankar, speaking a day earlier, had claimed that India’s core challenges with Pakistan stemmed directly from the country’s military establishment — remarks the FO said were an attempt to shift blame and distract from India’s own actions in the region.
Responding to the allegations, the FO emphasised that Pakistan was a “responsible state” and that all national institutions, including the armed forces, formed a central pillar of its security architecture. It said the institutions were committed to defending Pakistan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and had consistently demonstrated professionalism and restraint.
The statement made specific reference to the brief four-day conflict between India and Pakistan in May, describing it as an episode that “vividly demonstrated the armed forces’ professionalism and their resolve to defend the motherland against any Indian aggression in a befitting, effective yet responsible manner.” The FO added that “no amount of propaganda can belie this truth.”
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It stated that Indian leadership’s attempts to defame Pakistan’s institutions were part of a broader propaganda campaign aimed at diverting attention from what the FO described as India’s “destabilising actions” in the region and “state-sponsored terrorism” inside Pakistan. It said such rhetoric showed “India’s disregard for amity, peace and regional stability.”
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The FO further criticised India’s internal political environment, arguing that instead of issuing misleading statements about Pakistan, the Indian government should “investigate the fascist and revisionist Hindutva ideology” that, according to the FO, had fuelled mob violence, lynchings, arbitrary detentions and the demolition of properties and places of worship. It said both the Indian state and its leadership had become “hostage to this terror in the name of religion.”
In its concluding remarks, the FO reaffirmed that Pakistan believes in “co-existence, dialogue and diplomacy,” but remains “united and resolute” in its commitment to safeguard national interests and sovereignty in the face of external provocation.
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