Pakistan has rejected the Indian Home Minister Amit Shah's “unwarranted and gratuitous” remarks on partition and the Kartarpur Corridor and advised the BJP-led government to shed its obsession with Pakistan.

“Pakistan also reiterates its serious concern over the BJP leadership’s increasing tendency of dragging Pakistan into its domestic affairs,” the Foreign Office spokesperson said in a statement issued on Friday.

The FO reaction came in response to the Indian home minister's speech at a ceremony at the Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi on Thursday. “Due to the past mistakes in drawing India’s boundary, Kartarpur, a small town just four kilometres (2.5 miles) inside Pakistan, was left outside the Indian territory,” Amit was quoted as saying in The Hindu report.

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Prime Minister Imran Khan on November 19, 2019, inaugurated the Kartarpur Corridor on the 550th birth anniversary of Baba Guru Nanak. The white-domed shrine in Kartarpur had remained out of reach of Indian Sikhs for decades because of hostile relations between the two neighbouring countries.

Following the partition, millions of Sikhs fled to India, while at least 20,000 of them remained in Pakistan.

The Indian minister had also talked about the partition, saying: “India has a 15,000-km long land boundary. Before 1947, we were one, shared common heritage and culture… We need to be alert on the security front.”

Reacting to this, the Foreign Office alleged that distortion of historical facts has become the hallmark of the BJP government along with its ideological fountainhead RSS. “The resort to such delusional thinking by the Indian leadership has been strikingly frequent over the last couple of months in the wake of the elections in several states in India,” it read.

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Recently, it recalled that the Indian prime minister also made similar remarks questioning well-established historical facts. The FO was of the view that such a denial mentality or revisionism could neither change historical facts nor the established realities.

“It is also worth remembering that it was Pakistan which had brought to fruition the idea of Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur Corridor, while India kept dragging its feet, and completed the project in record time as a gift to the Sikh community in India and worldwide,” it read.

With such official statements, Pakistan alleged that the Indian government tried to divert the world’s attention from the issues of rapid marginalisation of minorities, especially Muslims and human rights violations and military siege of Kashmiris in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.