After India’s Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar’s declared that going to Pakistan is like going to hell, the country’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Wednesday also sided with him and said that it is well-known to everybody that democracy is non-functional in Islamabad.
NCP leader Majeed Memon, however, said that it was not clear as to in what context the Defence Minister has made such a remark.
“So, the position and the situation of Pakistan is known to everybody. There is turmoil, there is insecurity, there is a total mess in democracy, a so-called democracy is non-functional at all,” Memon told ANI.
“But in what context the Defence Minister has said this, I have no idea. But then the meaning of what he said, in fact, shows the true position of Pakistan,” he added.
Modi s defence minister, Manohar Parrikar, raised the temperature on Tuesday, saying Indian troops had “sent back five terrorists yesterday”.
He told a rally, “Going to Pakistan is the same as going to hell.”
The minister also echoed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s sentiments at the Independence Day speech by demanding that Pakistan stops violating human rights in its Balochistan province and that Azad Kashmir is a part of Indian territory.
Parrikar, who was in Haryana’s Rewari to participate in a Zara Yaad Karo Qurbaani programme, alleged that Pakistan has always been promoting terrorism.
“Now sometimes, even it is bearing the consequences of terrorism,” he added.
At least 79 civilians have been killed in clashes between protesters and security forces, and thousands more injured in the worst violence to hit India-held Kashmir since 2010.
Kashmir is split between India and Pakistan along a UN-monitored line of control, but both claim it in full and have fought two wars over its control.
Freedom fighters have fought Indian security forces in Kashmir since 1989 for the independence of the region or for it to be made part of Pakistan. The conflict has left tens of thousands, mostly civilians, dead.
