ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Saturday saidnobody can browbeat the country for the brutal Pulwama terror attack evenas he offered to fully cooperate in any probe into the incident if Indiashares any evidence with it.
Forty CRPF personnel were killed and five others critically injured when asuicide bomber rammed a vehicle laden with explosives into their bus inJammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Thursday.
Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) has claimed responsibility for the attack on theconvoy of 78 vehicles that was on its way from Jammu to Srinagar.
Qureshi, in a recorded a video message from Germany where he is attendingthe Munich Security Conference, claimed that India, without investigation,in a knee-jerk reaction, blamed Pakistan for the attack.
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“It is easy to blame Pakistan but it will not solve the problem and theworld will not be convinced,” he said in the message which was released bythe ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on its official Twitteraccount.He said nobody can browbeat Pakistan by blaming it for he attack.
“We know how to defend ourselves. We can also present out point of viewacross the world. Our message is peace and not conflict,” Qureshi said.
