Defense Minister Khawaja Asif warned on Monday that India could make a military strike at any time along the control line (LOC), while diplomatic and security tensions between the two nuclear armed nations increase after the Pahalgam attack on the cashmere occupied by India.
“There is information that India could hit at any time along the loc … New Delhi will receive an appropriate response,” he told journalists in Islamabad.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called for an international commission to investigate the incident. “Such a probe would expose whether India itself or any internal group was involved and clarifies the truth behind the baseless allegations of New Delhi,” said AIF.
The Minister accused the Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “pushing the region to the brink of nuclear war” for political gains and repeated the long-standing allegations of Pakistan of Indian participation in terrorism in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Balochistan.
“We had provided evidence in 2016 and 2017 to the UN, including videos from India funding terrorism,” he said. He also linked the recent wave of terror in KP and Balutchistan to groups operating in Afghanistan, which allegedly supported by India.
Asif has also questioned the absence of the Pakistan Tehreek-E-insaf party (PTI) of a key safety briefing a day earlier, saying: “I don’t know why PTI chose not to participate.”
He added that the two parliamentary houses have adopted resolutions on the crisis, and the parties are free to call a conference of all parties if they wish.
