Indian Minister defense Rajnath Singh on Sunday, September 29, 2024 said that if Pakistan had maintained friendly relations with India, India would have provided it with a much larger financial assistance package than the one sought by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
According to the Indian newspaper The Hindu, Rajnath Singh, while addressing an election rally in the Grays assembly constituency of Bandipora district, referred to the development package announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for Indian-administered Kashmir in 2014 and 2015. Hoy said;
Modi had then announced a special package for the development of Jammu and Kashmir, which has now reached INR 90,000 crore. This amount is more than what Pakistan was asking from the IMF.
Rajnath Singh quoted former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s famous statement that ‘we can change friends but we cannot change neighbours’.
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He further said, ‘I say to Pakistani friends why keep strained relations? We are neighbours, if we had good relations, we would have given you more financial support than the IMF.’
The defense minister added that the Center gives money to Indian-administered Kashmir for development, while “Pakistan seeks money from other countries to run a terror factory on its soil.”
He added that Kashmir will once again become ‘heaven on earth’ when Vajpayee’s dream of ‘humanity, democracy and Kashmirism’ is fulfilled.
The defense minister also said that Pakistan uses terrorism as a weapon against India and has become isolated globally, even its trusted allies have withdrawn.
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2024-09-30 06:55:24
