India on Wednesday slammed Pakistan for its ‘rant’ at the 20th Commonwealth Foreign Affairs Ministers Meeting. Addressing the meeting virtually on behalf of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, MEA Secretary (West) Vikas Swarup said that it was unfortunate that the South Asian country chose the Commonwealth platform to “pursue its own bigoted, ill-conceived, narrow and unilateral agenda”. Earlier in the day, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister S.M. Qureshi had said that “a state in South Asia is targeting its religious minority groups in order to foment division and hatred amongst community groups.
