Islamabad:
The national security advisers of Pakistan and India have established contacts with each other after India launched a series of missile strikes inside Pakistan and Jammu-Cachemire in Azad in the early hours of Wednesday.
The LT General of Pakistan NSA Asim Malik, who is also DG ISI, spoke to his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval in what seems to be part of the efforts to seek a de -escalation, according to familiar officials with development.
“Yes, the advisers of Indian Pakistan and National Security are in contact,” the ISHAQ Dar ISHAQ DAR at the Express PK Press Club said.
He would not provide more details on the nature of the discussions and the goal of contact between the two NSAs.
A Pakistani official said that these communication channels were needed during crisis times.
It is believed that the two NSAs have established contacts after hectic diplomatic efforts behind the international and regional actors.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who also has the additional NSA charge, also spoke to the Pakistani and Indian NSAs shortly after Indian missile strikes and Pakistan’s response.
Although the National Security Committee (NSA) said that Pakistan would respond to Indian missile strikes to a place, time and choice, the subsequent speech by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in the National Assembly suggested that Pakistan may not give an additional response.
Sources have said that Pakistan had been overthrown by a third country on imminent Indian missile strikes. Similar channels, according to sources, have transported to Pakistan that India did not want additional escalation.
What made the difference?
When India made air strikes in February 2019 in Balakot after the Pulwama attack, it was a surprise for Pakistan because Indian fighter planes have never crossed the control line (LOC) since 1971.
Pakistan provided for a kind of action from India, but he never thought that the Modi government could make such attacks, although Indian fighter planes had only fallen useful charges without real damage on the ground. New Delhi, however, wanted to send a message to his national audience and to Pakistan that he was ready to establish a new normal relationship in India-Pakistan.
Since the Indian move was surprised, the Pakistani authorities took a full day to decide how to move forward. Dr. Moeed Yusuf, who was a national security advisor at the time, said that despite the Indian misadventure in Balakot, the Pakistani civil and military authorities still sought non -kinetic options to defuse tensions. Finally, Pakistan decided to avenge the Indian action, cutting off its fighter plane and capturing the pilot.
The difference this time is that there was absolutely a clarity in Pakistan. If India launched an attack, Pakistan’s response would be the Quid Pro quo more, according to familiar officials with the discussions behind the stage.
There were clear instructions that the armed forces of Pakistan would respond decisively and quickly when India hit the country.
In the early hours of Wednesday, when reports began to emerge from Muzaffarabad to Kotli and Muridke in Bahawalpur about several explosions, Pakistan knew that India has launched the strikes it had planned since Pahalgam’s attack.
Shortly after these strikes, the chief military spokesman appeared on a television channel and confirmed the attack on India. What was different this time, however, is that Pakistan immediately started its reprisals. The answer came from both air and soil. During the first hour of Pakistan reprisals, Pakistan killed five Indian fighter planes, including 4.5 sophisticated generation Rafael Jets that India bought in France in a hurry to consolidate its defenses after the botched operation in Balakot.
“Pakistan could have killed 10 Indian fighter planes,” said the Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, at a press conference. But Pakistan, he said, observed a restraint.
There was a complete breakdown in the Indian media on the losses it suffered as a result of Pakistan’s strong response. The Hindu, one of the oldest and most credible newspapers, initially confirmed the drop in three Indian fighter planes on its website, but history has been apparently removed on Indian government pressure to avoid embarrassment.
An American commentator told CNN that if the news of Pakistan slaughtering the Rafale jets was true, it would be a blow for India, which boasted of their air superiority after the induction of the war aircraft of French manufacturing.
Some experts were of the opinion that the duel between the two countries was actually a test for Chinese and Western technology. Pakistan, according to officials, at J -10C – Pakistan Chinese planes acquired after India has induced Rafale in their squadron.
A high -ranking French intelligence official said in CNN on Wednesday that a burst fighter operated by the Indian Air Force had been shot down by Pakistan, in what would mark the first time that one of the sophisticated French war planes was lost in combat.
This is massive development and shows that China now has advanced technology, according to an American commentator.
