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Mind your own business: Islamabad

B. Muralidhar Reddy

Balochistan isuue our internal affair

ISLAMABAD : Criticising India for expressing concern on the Balochistan situation, Pakistan on Monday said such statements from New Delhi "betrayed the psyche of a bully."

For the second time in less than a week, Pakistan assailed India on the same issue. The provocation for the latest outburst is the reported justification of last week's remarks by an Indian official to an Indian news agency.

On the reported assertion of the Indian official that there was nothing extraordinary about India's concerns on the situation in Balochistan, Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson Tasneem Aslam said it amounted to blatant interference in the internal affairs of Pakistan.

"Anyone who says that there is nothing extraordinary about a statement that is tantamount to interference in the internal affairs of other countries betrays the psyche of a bully, a bully who sees a red rag everywhere. Our advice to the Indian officials would be to mind their own business," Ms. Aslam told reporters here.

She said Pakistan adhered to non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries. "As a matter of policy we do not make statements on situations in other countries even though they may be serious."

Ms. Aslam said there was no such thing as Indian or Pakistani Kashmir and that the whole of Kashmir was disputed.

Asked whether Pakistan had any evidence to prove the allegations of Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Muhammad about Indian involvement in arming and financing Baloch nationalist rebels, Ms. Aslam said: "I would not like to elaborate on it at the moment. But yes, there are indications and evidence of foreign involvement."

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