The decision to mark 20 July as “Black Day” was taken at a cabinet meeting chaired by Pakistan’s prime minister Nawaz Sharif a week earlier. “Pakistan’s Prime Minister says that his good wishes are with the people of Kashmir. The statement of none other than the Prime Minister of Pakistan has betrayed this despicable design. In a strongly-worded statement, Swaraj also said Pakistan would never succeed in turning Kashmir, where India accuses Pakistan of supporting an armed Islamist insurgency, into a “terror hell.”Swaraj’s comments follow remarks by home minister Rajnath Singh in Parliament on Thursday where he accused Pakistan of destabilising India. “The whole of India would like to tell Prime Minister of Pakistan that this dream will not be realized even at the end of eternity.

Source: Mint July 23, 2016 15:45 UTC