Islamabad:
Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Senator Ishaq Dar, said that Pakistan had not planned to deploy nuclear warheads against India during increased tensions between the two countries last week.
The Deputy Prime Minister, in an interview with CNN, said that Pakistan “had no other choice” than to launch strikes in “self-defense” after the cross-border attacks of India.
Pulling the strikes of India as a “war” and an “attempted vow of establishing his hegemony” in cashmere, he said: “There are certain moments when you have to make very serious decisions … We were very safe that our conventional capacities and capacities are strong enough to beat them both in the air and on the ground.”
Although the ceasefire agreement has so far seemed to hold, Dar has told the interviewer that long-term negotiations between the two parties were “still made”.
“We always hope that the meaning will prevail,” he said.
He said that it was in everyone’s interest not to delay or leave such problems beyond a certain reasonable time.
“(The Indians) had seen what had happened in heaven,” he added. “They could see how serious the damage was.”
The Deputy Prime Minister said that there was no direct contact between Indian or Pakistani officials, contradicting a previous affirmation made by the Director General of Military Operations of India, who would have received a message from his counterpart in Pakistan during the talks. Instead, he said that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio transmitted the message that India was ready to stop fighting.
He said Pakistan was impatient to establish a long -term peace and security path that would provide “the dignity of both parties”.
Calling for cashmere “the deep cause of this regional instability” Ishaq Dar called for the granting of self -determination rights to the people of cashmere.
He reiterated that Pakistan was not late on last month’s attack in Pahalgam, saying: “We condemn terrorism in all forms and all the manifestations.”
Dar added that he thought that US President Donald Trump had supported the anti -terrorist efforts in Pakistan.
“If they did not believe (in our efforts), they would not have cooperated the way (what they did),” said Dar, pointing to the publication of Trump’s social media on “find a solution” to the Kashmir conflict.
However, DAR warned that the already precarious ceasefire could be threatened if the water problem was not resolved in future talks, referring to the Indian decision to keep the Treaty of Indus in suspense.
The fact of not solving the water problem “equivalent to an act of war,” said Dar.
Meanwhile, the Information Attaullah Tarar said that the recent ceasefire between Pakistan and India was the result of diplomatic efforts in various countries.
Speaking to Sky News, he said that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif thanked US President Donald Trump for playing a key role for the ceasefire.
He noted that China, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Qatar also played an important role in the ceasefire. (With application input)
