New Delhi: In a befitting response to Pakistan People's Party leader Bilawal Bhutto Zardari's statement on Kashmir, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said that ‘unity of India is non-negotiable'.
Official spokesperson of the MEA, Syed Akbaruddin, on Saturday said, “The integrity and unity of India is non-negotiable. India is in process of looking forward but it does not mean that borders are being changed.”
Bilawal, the ‘gen-next' politician of Pakistan, had said that his Pakistan People's Party would get back entire Kashmir from India.
“I will take back Kashmir, all of it, and I will not leave behind a single inch of it because, like the other provinces, it belongs to Pakistan,” Bilawal said while addressing the party workers in Multan region in Punjab on Friday.
The scion of highly influential Bhutto family has also announced plans to contest next general elections in 2018.
His mother, former slain premier Benazir Bhutto, was twice elected as Prime Minister of Pakistan while his maternal grandfather Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, who founded the Pakistan People's Party in 1967, also served as Prime Minister in 1970s. Bilawal's father Asif Ali Zardari was Pakistan's President from 2008 to 2013.
Bilawal's remark evoked sharp reaction from the rulling the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress.
The BJP said that Bilawal's remark are ‘extremely irresponsible' and Kashmir is an unbreakable part of India whereas the Congress said that Kashmir is an integral part India saying Pakistan is ‘entirely wrong' on the issue.
