The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday condemned remarks made by Pakistan accusing India of using 'excessive force' against separatist leaders in Jammu and Kashmir and advised the country to 'stay in its limits.'
BJP National Secretary Shrikant Sharma directed Pakistan to focus on their own 'crumbling' nation that is burdened with extreme poverty and terrorism, rather than interfering in India's 'internal matters'.
"The statement is very unfortunate and the BJP condemns it. Jammu and Kashmir is a part of India. Pakistan should stay in its limits and it should not interfere in internal matters of India. Pakistan should focus on its crumbling nation," Sharma told ANI.
"The nation should take a look at itself in the mirror and work to solve its own issues rather than interfering in our matters," he added.
Further, he asserted that strict action would be taken against bodies that try to muddle the 'unity and integrity' of India.
"If someone tries to disturb the unity and integrity of India, strict action would be taken against such elements. Pakistan needs to take a lesson from history," he added.
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Tasnim Aslam, the spokesperson of Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on Thursday accused India of using 'excessive force' against separatist leaders in Jammu and Kashmir, referring to Masarat Alam and said that it such a move by the Indian Government was 'regrettable'.
Aslam further called the charges put on the separatist leaders to be 'bogus' and 'illegal'.
"They were demonstrators, who were expressing, who were exercising their right to peaceful assembly. We believe that the charges against the Kashmiri leadership are ' bogus' and 'illegal'. As India does not have any legal right to demand allegiance to state of India by people of Kashmir, who belong to a disputed territory and whose final settlement in accordance with UN Security Council resolutions is yet to happen," she said.
"We are concerned at the constant violations of Kashmiris' fundamental rights. Remain steadfast in our stand of extending full political, diplomatic and moral support to our Kashmiri brothers in Indian Occupied Kashmir," she added.