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Borders can change, Sindh may return to India: Rajnath Singh
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said that while Sindh is not part of India today, borders can change and the region may “return home” to India.
Singh made the comment at an event of the Sindhi community in Delhi. The Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs criticised the comments, stating that they “reveal an expansionist Hindutva mindset that seeks to challenge established realities”.
The defence minister had noted that former Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani wrote in his book that members of the Sindhi Hindu community, especially from his generation, “have not accepted the separation of Sindh from India”.
The region became a part of Pakistan during the Partition.
“Not just in Sindh, but throughout India, Hindus consider the Indus River sacred,” Singh said. “Many Muslims in Sindh also believed that the water of the Indus was no less sacred than the Aab-e-Zamzam of Mecca. This is Advani ji's quote.”
He added: “Today, the land of Sindh may not be a part of India, but civilisationally, Sindh will always be a part of India.”
The minister said that “as far as land is concerned, borders can change”.
“Who knows, tomorrow Sindh may return to India again,” he said, adding that the people of Sindh who consider the Indus sacred will always be our own.
“No matter where they are, they will always be ours,” said Singh.
On October 2, Singh had claimed that Pakistan was expanding its military infrastructure along the Sir Creek, an estuary that separates Gujarat's Kutch from the Sindh province of Pakistan. He also warned Islamabad against any “misadventures” in the area.
The 96-km estuary is the site of a territorial dispute between India and Pakistan. While New Delhi holds that the boundary between the two countries lies in the middle of the creek, Islamabad claims that the boundary lies on the eastern bank.
“If any attempt is made from Pakistan's side at a misadventure in the Sir Creek area, it will receive such a robust reply that both history and geography will be altered,” Singh had said.
Source: Scroll
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