FM Khar says India ‘war-mongering’
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar.—File Photo
NEW YORK: India is “war-mongering” over deadly clashes in the disputed Kashmir region, foreign minister said on Tuesday while calling for talks to end the new hostilities.
Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar spoke out after Pakistan reported another of its troops had been killed in Kashmir while India’s prime minister has warned there can be no “business as usual” between the neighbors.
“We see war-mongering,” Khar said at the Asia Society in New York where she hit out statements by Indian politicians over the new tensions.
“It is deeply disturbing to hear statements which are upping the ante, where one politician is competing with the other to give a more hostile statement,” Khar added.
India says two of its soldiers have been killed in Kashmir, one beheaded, since January 6.
Pakistan says three of its troops have been killed in that time, the latest on Tuesday.
Khar said the neighbors had to get over their “narrative of hostility” from the past six decades.
“The doors to dialogue are open,” Khar said. “We need to meet at any level, I think we need to call each other, we need to become mature countries which know how to handle their truth.”
The minister again denied Indian accusations that Pakistani forces had beheaded one of two soldiers that India says were killed in Kashmir on January 8. She said an inquiry had found “no evidence” of the deaths.
India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh earlier called the beheading of an Indian soldier “unacceptable” and added there could be no “business as usual” with Pakistan.
“As I read statements coming in from the highest levels of government (in India) I can just say that we are deeply disappointed and I can say on behalf of my government that we feel that the dialogue process should be uninterrupted and uninterruptible,” Khar said.
She added that there was “warmongering coming in from the other side of the border which is I thought the thing of yesteryears and thing that we had put behind us.”
The Pakistan government “has invested deeply in the last four years to building a peaceful relationship with India,” the foreign minister added.
“I represent a government which has taken political risks to reach out to the Indians and to give them a clear message when we say we mean business when we say we want a different type of relationship,” Khar said.
“What you see in India is currently not living up to that and I hope that we will both show a deep abiding commitment to a normalised peace process, to a normalisation of relations,” Khar said.
In India state has an army but in Pakistan army has an state
I like the tone and maturaity coming from Pakistan FM. I am shocked to hear statements coming from sections of Indian politics especially from statesmen like Manmohan Singh and Murli Manohar Joshi. Sushma Swaraj, I have no respect for and can always expect to make poor statements. war never has and never will solve any issues and to kill thousands to avenge one is never a solutions in my books. Hope both nations live in peace and prosperiety.
beheading the soldier is a barbaric act. while Pakistan’s FM says that after an inquiry ( at their end ) they found that no evidence of death. the same perpetual mindset of denial while the beheaded body of the soldier reached India and a big cry and protest is in the air which pressurized ruling coalition. to take tough stand .
Pakistani politicians are big liars and talking with liars will not bring any positive result.. Pakistan is teaching distorted and false history to their people and the result is evident.
Hahaa nice joke
I believe that some politicians are taking the advantage of our inner issues at this stage and wish to manipulate the whole situation to gain some electoral benifts in their own upcoming elections
madam khar ji you know what is truth but you are not to speak the trurth. people are killed at border clashes but mis behave with the dead body of any soldier on any side is not desirable.it must be condemned from your side but it is very sad on your part you started covering the truth.please be human and respect humanity.
musalman kehto ho per ho musalman nahin
nazar aata nahin kahin muaslsil imaan nahin
kaat dete ho phool ko bhi kanta samajh kar
shakal se ho jaata koi musalman nahin
mein bhi to us sahebe-kamal ka kartab hun
kya hua jo mere hath mein quraan nahin
lakhwinder ashk
new delhi
Nice way to do propaganda….i guess you are also learning stuff from your media.
Most Pakistanis will agree with me that Indian government is trying to overshadow the rapes-in-moving-bus” cases in India as well as their loss to Pakistan in recently concluded ODI series. Also, they want to fight the international embarrassment that they came under pressure from one of Indian terror outfits’ threats to our hockey players.
This is limit upto where any pakistani can think off
No use talking to them.
yeah when there are no reasons and no detail to discuss over falsified facts and lies that Indians are used to make
yes India war mongering… and Pakistan longing for peace by mutilating the bodies of two soldiers… What a joke
first of all , do confirm whether it was one soldier or two who was actually mutilated, iff it happnd. then start making jokes about it
We don’t want any more dialogue with pakistan. We want the action now.
action based on lies?
Ohh.. Really…
I am prideful of Pakistani media and FM Hina for showing maturity and giving a responsible message to the world. On the other side I am sorry to say that Indian media is showing immaturity and fueling the unfortunate incidents on the LOC.
“”Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. “”… FM Hina should restrain her words… She should show the maturity needed for a FM…and PAK army reign in their rogue boys…..
Rather PAK army should spend time to clean up the LET bases and the rogue taliban fighters
what the Indian leadership has been saying is way more serious in nature
Agree
Very well said.. ….bravo
India is all for dialogue, but it will also in all forms expressed and enacted by Pakistan.