FM Qureshi tells India to focus on domestic issues instead of 'igniting border disputes'

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Sunday recommended that the Indian government focus on its internal problems rather than "behave like an expansionist nation."

In a two-part tweet, the foreign minister said: "It would be helpful for Prime Minister Modi's government and" neighborhood first "policy to realize that India's neighbors pose much less of a problem than its own shortcomings. domestic failures and fascism. "



Qureshi also criticized India for "igniting border disputes with every neighbor" and said the current Bharatiya Janata Party government should "focus on better serving India's poor, oppressed and minorities."

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Qureshi's tweets come days after Prime Minister Imran Khan offered to "help and share the successful [government] cash transfer program, internationally praised for its scope and transparency, with India." The PTI government has launched the Ehsaas Emergency Cash Program, under which around 12 million low-income families each received Rs12,000 to cover basic needs for three months.

The prime minister's "offer" came after a study by the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago, and the Mumbai-based Monitoring Center for the Indian Economy (CMIE) found that approximately 84 percent of Indian households suffered a decrease in income due to the pandemic.

In addition to the economic setback, the virus has also fueled hatred against Muslims in India, as well as insecurities among poor people who have lost their jobs due to government measures to curb the spread.

Indian forces often resort to aggression on the Line of Control and attack soldiers, as well as civilians, in "unprovoked" attacks, resulting in damage to both life and property.

In addition to its disputes with Pakistan, India is currently facing a clash with Chinese forces in the remote Ladakh snow desert, where hundreds of soldiers have clashed with each other since April in the most serious attacks on the border for years afterward. for the Chinese patrols to advance. on what India considers its side of the de facto border.

The two sides are in talks and, according to an Indian official, after weeks of tension, including an incident in which the two sides' patrol soldiers were beaten on the shores of Lake Pangong, resulting in injuries, the friction has decreased a little bit.

Another conflict in which India is involved is with Nepal, who has protested against India over a border road, which he claims runs through its territory. New Delhi denies the charge.

The protests in Nepal were also fueled by a new map of the region that India drew after the fork in Jammu and Kashmir occupied in two union territories in December last year.