Pakistan’s Foreign Office condemned the aggressive military actions of India and the hostile diplomatic position, tending to New Delhi responsible for its imprudent unilateral aggression, the deliberate targeting of civilians and flagrant violations of international treaties.
The spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Shafqat Ali Khan, said that India had acted “as a judge, jury and executioner”, launching cross-border attacks based on unaccompanied social media accounts.
He said such actions were in clear violation of international standards and constituted a serious threat to regional peace.
The spokesperson for FO also said that investigations on the attacks by Patkhankot and Mumbai could not progress due to the persistent non-cooperation of India, undergoing the pursuit of justice.
He added that if India levels allegations against others, it constantly ignores its own documented role in the destabilization of the region.
The spokesman said Kulbhushan Jadhav, a commander in the Indian navy captured in Pakistan, remains living proof of Indian involvement in terrorist activities in Pakistan.
He also quoted the bombing of Samjhauta Express, which resulted in the death of innocent civilians, including children, and involved Hindu extremists linked to the power of India.
Rejecting India’s demand to target militant infrastructure, he said that strikes had led to the martyrdom of civilians, including women and children.
He noted that the mosques and the Neelum dam were one of the targets, calling it a deliberate attack on the Pakistani population. “India must be held responsible,” he said.
Commenting on water disputes, the spokesman said that the Industrial Water Treaty had resisted the time test, but that the current suspension of its obligations by India was “illegal” and reflected a “blatant contempt for international treaties”. He stressed that Pakistan is an agricultural country with a largely agrarian economy, and said that the actions of India constituted an open attack against Pakistan and its people.
He also criticized the recent remarks by the Secretary of Indian Foreign Affairs, describing them as unspoken and irresponsible. “We regret the use of such a language. Better was expected, ” he said, adding that the Indian government has developed a model of “absurd and baseless complaint”.
He also noted that India itself had taken the dispute from cashmere at the United Nations, but now refuses to honor its commitments.
“India remains a key source of instability in South Asia, after blocked all serious efforts to regional cooperation,” he added.
Latest tensions
The latest climbing of tensions between India and Pakistan follows the attack on April 22 in Pahalgam, in India illegally occupied of Jammu and Kashmir (Iiojk), which resulted in 26 deaths. India immediately accused Pakistan elements of orchestrating the attack, although no evidence has been provided. Islamabad firmly rejected these allegations.
In retaliation, India closed the Wagah lands border on April 23, suspended the Industry Water Treaty and revoked Pakistani visas. Pakistan responded by labeling any disturbance in water flow as an “act of war” and closed the Wagah crossing on the side.
The situation erely intensified on Wednesday, while reports from various cities in Pakistan, including Muzaffarabad, Kotli, Muridke and Bahawalpur, detailed several explosions. Pakistan’s military spokesperson, lieutenant-general Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, confirmed that Indian air strikes had targeted several locations in Pakistan. In response, Pakistan has launched Swift Air and Ground Operations.
During the first hour of reprisals, Pakistan announced the decline in five Indian fighter planes, including four burst aircraft, which India had recently acquired France to strengthen its air defenses following the failure of Balakot’s operation in 2019.
“Pakistan could have killed 10 Indian fighter planes,” said Lieutenant-General Chaudhry during a press briefing. “But Pakistan has chosen to exercise a restraint.”
Despite the magnitude of the answer, the Indian media remained largely silent on the losses. The Hindu, an eminent Indian newspaper, initially reported that three Indian planes had been slaughtered but then deleted the article, probably under pressure from the Indian government to avoid more embarrassment.
An American commentator on CNN said that the potential loss of Rafale planes would seriously damage India’s claim to air superiority, which it had built around the induction of these advanced French warns. Some experts have hypothesized that the confrontation had served as a test of Chinese and Western military technologies, especially after Pakistan acquired J-10C jets in China in response to the Rafale Fleet of India.
A senior French intelligence official confirmed to CNN that a burst plane had indeed been shot down by Pakistan, marking the first time that this sophisticated French plane had been lost in combat.
In another development, the Pakistan armed forces have confirmed the neutralization of 25 HAROP drones of Israeli manufacturing used by India in a recent cross -border activity.
A statement published Thursday by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) of Pakistan confirmed Thursday that these drones had been slaughtered by using both electronic countermeasures (soft-tight techniques) and conventional weapons (hard killers) after being detected in several areas through Pakistan.
The ISPR has described the incursions of the drone as a “desperate and panicked response” by India, which intervened after Pakistan’s reprisal operations on May 6 and 7, in which five Indian hunting planes were slaughtered and several military posts were struck.
Impected by armed drones of Israeli manufacture, called “blur ammunition”, sent by India to several cities in Pakistan, including Karachi, residents of the metropolitan city flocked in the streets in an extraordinary wave of solidarity with the armed forces.
The number of Indian drones killed by the Pakistani armed forces had reached at least 77, confirmed security sources on Friday.
