Bluntly calling Pakistan a ”prime sponsor of terrorism,” India on Wednesday asked Islamabad to vacate the part of Kashmir it has occupied, virtually laying down a new paradigm for any resolution of the issue.

”Pakistan is not primary victim of terrorism but of its own policies. It is in fact the prime sponsor of terrorism. Pakistan’s instability arises from its breeding of terrorists. Blaming neighbors is not a solution,” Spokesman of India’s Ministry of External Affairs Vikas Swarup said in a series of tweets on Wednesday.

New Delhi’s sulfurous response came after Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had launched his country’s familiar lament about Pakistan being a victim of terrorism and the need to ”demilitarize” Kashmir and give the state the right of self-determination.

”To de-militarize Kashmir is not the answer, to de-terrorize Pakistan is,” Swarup blasted back.

In response to Sharif’s statement that ”many generations of Kashmiris have lived their lives under occupation,” Swarup tweeted the following retort: ”Pak PM gets foreign occupation right, occupier wrong. We urge early vacation of Pak occupied Kashmir.” Details