New Delhi, Oct. 10 -- Former Minister of State (MoS) for External Affairs MJ Akbar launched a sharp attack on Pakistan amid the ongoing protests in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, describing it as a "corrupt military dictatorship" sustained by "supremacism and fascism."

In a conversation with ANI, Akbar said that people of Kashmir, on both sides of the border, had been misled into believing that religion could serve as the foundation of nationalism and statehood, but were now realising the truth.

"The people of Kashmir who were fooled, or those people in their part of occupied Kashmir, who were fooled into believing this, now know the truth. The truth is that Pakistan is nothing but an acquisitive, corrupt military dictatorship which has sei...