Speaking at an event earlier today, Modi alleged that Pakistain was trying to stay relevant through "terrorism" and "proxy war" and added that such a strategy would never succeed.
Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch in a statement on Friday said that the Indian prime minister cannot divert the world's attention from the brutalities being committed by Indian forces in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
(IIOJK).
Dismissing the Modi's remarks, the FO said: "Bravado and jingoism undermine regional peace, and are totally counter-productive for resolution of long-standing disputes between Pakistain and India, especially the core dispute of Jammu and Kashmir."
"The Indian leaders’ rhetorical statements cannot deflect international attention from India’s heavy-handed approach to suppress the Kashmiri people’s just struggle for realisation of their fundamental rights and freedoms, particularly their inalienable right to self-determination," the statement said.