Pakistan and India are about to reduce the accumulation of troops along their border at levels before the conflict has fun between nuclear arms neighbors this month, Pakistan president, the president of the joint staff chiefs on Friday, although he warned that the crisis had increased the risk of climbing in the future.
The two parties used fighter planes, missiles, drones and artillery in four days of clashes, their worst fights for decades, before the announcement of a cease-fire.
The recent clashes between Pakistan and India occurred following the attack on Pahalgam on April 22 in Indian illegally occupied the Jammu and the cashmere (iiojk) which killed 26 people, most of them.
New Delhi blamed the incident without proof on the Pakistani elements, an accusation rejected by Islamabad, who asked for an independent investigation into the incident.
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Pakistan and India remove the troops from the term positions, confirmed by the president of the chiefs of staff. “We almost returned to the situation before April 22,” General SAHUR SHAMSHAD MIRZA told Reuters. pic.twitter.com/wendodjhzq
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On May 7, India launched missiles on civil sites, which he claims to describe as a “terrorist infrastructure” through the border.
This caused a defensive response from Pakistan and an accumulation of later troops by the two countries along the border.
General SAHUR SHAMSHAD MIRZA, President of Pakistan of joint staff chiefs, said the two soldiers started the process of withdrawing troop levels.
“We almost returned to the pre-avril 22 situation … We are approaching this, or we must have approached it now,” said Mirza, the highest Pakistani military official to speak publicly since the conflict.
The Indian Defense Ministry of Defense and the office of the Indian Defense Staff did not immediately respond to Reuters’ comments on Mirza’s remarks.
Mirza, who is in Singapore to attend the Shangri-La dialogue forum, said that if there was no movement towards nuclear weapons during this conflict, it was a dangerous situation.
“Nothing happened this time,” he said. “But you cannot exclude a strategic calculation error at any time, because when the crisis is underway, the answers are different.”
He also said that the risk of climbing in the future had increased since the fighting this time was not limited to the IIOJK, the Himalayan panoramic region that the two nations govern in part but affirm entirely.
Dangerous trend
The two countries fought three great wars, including two above the contested region of cashmere and many armed skirmishes since the birth of British colonial India in 1947.
“This (conflict) reduces the threshold between two countries which are contiguous nuclear powers … In the future, it will not be limited to the contested territory. This would amount to (all of India and (all of Pakistan,” said Mirza. “It is a very dangerous trend.”
Reuters reported that the rapid escalation of hostilities ended in part because of behind-the-scenes diplomacy involving the United States, India and Pakistan, and the key role played by Washington in peace brokerage.
India continues to deny any third party role in the ceasefire and said that any commitment between India and Pakistan must be bilateral.
But Mirza warned that international mediation could be difficult in the future due to a lack of crisis management mechanisms between countries.
“The temporal window so that the international community to intervene would now be very less, and I would say that damage and destruction can take place even before this window is operated by the international community,” he said.
Pakistan was open to dialogue, he added, but beyond a hotline of crisis between the general directors of military operations and a few hot lines at the tactical level on the border, there was no other communication between the two countries.
Mirza said there were no discussions on the channel or informal conferences to facilitate tensions.
He also declared that he did not intend to meet General Anil Chauhan, the Chief of the Defense Staff of India, who is also in Singapore for the Shangri-La forum.
“These problems can only be resolved by dialogue and consultations at the table. They cannot be resolved on the battlefield,” said Mirza.
