Foreign Office condemns India's deceptive presentation of Partition
The Bharatiya Janata Party, which is currently in power in India, is carrying out Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decision last year to designate Pakistan's Independence Day as "Partition Horrors Remembrance Day," which is yet another indication that there are slim chances of any thawing in relations between the two nuclear-armed neighbors. The action sparked new tensions between the two nations, with Islamabad sharply criticizing the BJP government for its "mischievous behavior." The Indian action was sharply condemned in a statement released by the Foreign Office on Thursday. "True to its customary revisionist goal, the BJP-RSS-led dispensation has once again sought to reference the sad events and mass migration that took place in the aftermath of Independence in 1947 in a hypocritical and biased manner." The statement said, "It is reprehensible that the BJP government is willfully seeking to play with the