RAJESTHAN: Following Prime Minister Imran Khan’s befitting response to thethreats, Indian PM Narendra Modi on Saturday recalled his telephonicconversation with his Pakistani counterpart after he won general elections2018.
While addressing a gathering at Rajasthan’s Tonk, Modi said, “When Pakistangot a new prime minister, I congratulated him. Imran Khan had said to methat he was son of a Pathan and will stand by his words.”
“We also discussed to fight together against poverty and illiteracy,” headded.
The reaction of Indian PM came after Imran Khan’s address to the nation inwhich he said that India blamed Pakistan for the bombing without anyevidence.
Imran Khan told India to leave its “judge, jury and execution” approach.“War is easy to start but difficult to end as it does not remain in humanhands afterwards. It is not a sane approach to start a war,” he said.
He said Pakistan has no benefit in conducting such operations, especiallywhen Islamabad was planning to sign historic deals with Saudi Arabia uponthe visit of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
“Only a fool would do such a thing to sabotage the visit of the crownprince. Pakistan is going towards stability and fighting againstterrorism,” he added.
Indian government had blamed Pakistan for Pulwama attack and threatened toisolate it at international level.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said those behind the terror attackwould pay a “very heavy price” and had made a “huge mistake”.
Union Minister Arun Jaitley said they will take all possible diplomaticsteps to ensure “complete isolation” of Pakistan and has withdrawn MostFavoured Nation status to the country.
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Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi wrote a letter to the UN SecretaryGeneral. “It is with a sense of urgency that I draw your attention to thedeteriorating security situation in our region resulting from the threat ofuse of force against Pakistan by India.” the Foreign Minister stated.
He said the Pulwama attack on Indian Central Reserve Police Force wasostensibly and even by Indian accounts carried out by a Kashmiri residentof Indian Occupied Kashmir. Attributing it to Pakistan even beforeinvestigations is absurd.
“For domestic political reasons, India has deliberately ratcheted up itshostile rhetoric against Pakistan and created a tense environment. It hasalso hinted that it may abandon the Indus Waters Treaty. This would be agrievous error.”
At least 44 Indian paramilitary soldiers were killed on Thursday inIndian-occupied Kashmir in one the deadliest attacks. The attack sawexplosives packed inside a van rip through buses in a convoy of 78 vehiclescarrying some 2,500 members of the paramilitary CRPF.
Two blue buses carrying around 35 people each bore the brunt of the massiveblast, heard miles away, around 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the city ofSrinagar on the main highway to Jammu.
Kashmir has been divided between India and Pakistan since independence.Rebels have been fighting for an independent Kashmir, or a merger withPakistan, for 30 years.
Last year was the deadliest in a decade, with rights monitors saying almost600 Kashmiri people died, most of them civilians. Thousands more have beenmaimed in recent years by pellet-firing shotguns used by Indian forces.
